Apparition to Aratus
A Concordance to the Collected Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson
Compiled by Eugene F. Irey
apparition, n. (4)
Chr2 10.100 20 It happens now and then, in the ages,
that a soul is born which offers no impediment to the Divine
Spirit...and all its thoughts are perceptions of things as they are,
without any infirmity of earth. Such souls are as the apparition of
gods among men...
apparitions, n. (1)
Dem1 10.9 15 However monstrous and grotesque
[dreams'] apparitions, they have a substantial truth.
appeal, n. (18)
Con 1.305 27 ...before this personal appeal, the
innovator must confess his weakness...
OS 2.267 10 ...the argument which is always
forthcoming to silence those who conceive extraordinary hopes of man,
namely the appeal to experience, is for ever invalid and vain.
OS 2.295 1 Whenever the appeal is made...to numbers,
proclamation is then and there made that religion is not.
Exp 3.82 12 A preoccupied attention is the only
answer to the importunate frivolity of other people; an attention, and
to an aim which makes their wants frivolous. This is a divine answer,
and leaves no appeal...
Chr1 3.100 18 Acquiescence in the establishment and
appeal to the public, indicate infirm faith...
Mrs1 3.147 17 ...within the ethnical circle of good
society there is a narrower and higher circle...to which there is
always a tacit appeal of pride and reference...
NR 3.230 26 In any controversy concerning morals, an
appeal may be made with safety to the sentiments which the language of
the people expresses.
ShP 4.199 12 Did [the bard] feel himself overmatched
by any companion? The appeal is to the consciousness of the writer.
ET5 5.81 22 There is on every question [in England]
an appeal from the assertion of the parties to the proof of what is
asserted.
ET12 5.213 14 ...when you have settled it that the
universities are moribund, out comes a poetic influence from the heart
of Oxford...to give veracity to art and charm mankind, as an appeal to
moral order always must.
FSLN 11.224 23 ...the appeal is sure to be made to
[Webster's] physical and mental ability when his character is assailed.
RBur 11.439 9 ...I do not know by what untoward
accident it has chanced... that...it should fall to me, the worst
Scotsman of all, to receive your commands...to respond to the sentiment
just offered, and which indeed makes the occasion [the Burns Festival].
But I am told there is no appeal...
FRep 11.529 7 As the globe keeps its identity by
perpetual change, so our civil system, by perpetual appeal to the
people...
MAng1 12.238 21 Michael Angelo was of that class of
men who are too superior to the multitude around them to command a full
and perfect sympathy. They stand in the attitude rather of appeal from
their contemporaries to their race.
PPr 12.380 13 [Carlyle's Past and Present] is such an
appeal to the conscience and honor of England as cannot be forgotten...
appeal, v. (15)
DSA 1.148 15 ...we shall resist for truth's sake the
freest flow of kindness and appeal to sympathies far in advance;...
MN 1.198 9 In treating a subject so large, in which
we must necessarily appeal to the intuition...I know it is not easy to
speak with the precision attainable on topics of less scope.
Con 1.297 3 I see, rejoins Saturns [to Uranus]...thou
art become an evil eye; thou spakest from love; now thy words smite me
with hatred. I appeal to Fate, must there not be rest?
Con 1.297 4 I appeal to Fate also, said Uranus, must
there not be motion?
Lov1 2.170 7 ...I know I incur the imputation of
unnecessary hardness and stoicism from those who compose the Court and
Parliament of Love. But from these formidable censors I shall appeal to
my seniors.
Hsm1 2.260 13 ...we have the weakness to expect the
sympathy of people in those actions whose excellence is that
they...appeal to a tardy justice.
Cir 2.306 9 There are no fixtures to men, if we
appeal to consciousness.
NER 3.270 24 You remember the story of the poor woman
who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which
Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal...
Wsp 6.211 27 ...we appeal to the sanctified preamble
of the messages and proclamations of the public sinner, as the proof of
sincerity.
Elo1 7.98 8 ...the men least accustomed to appeal to
these [moral] sentiments invariably recall them when they address
nations.
LS 11.17 13 I appeal now to the convictions of
communicants [in the Lord' s Supper], and ask such persons whether they
have not been occasionally conscious of a painful confusion of thought
between the worship due to God and the commemoration due to Christ.
LS 11.18 6 I appeal, brethren, to your individual
experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God...do
you not, in the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from
your thought?
appealed, v. (1)
NER 3.270 25 You remember the story of the poor woman
who importuned King Philip of Macedon to grant her justice, which
Philip refused: the woman exclaimed, I appeal: the king, astonished,
asked to whom she appealed...
appealing, v. (2)
Mrs1 3.131 12 ...the habit even in little and the
least matters of not appealing to any but our own sense of propriety,
constitutes the foundation of all chivalry.
Ctr 6.131 10 A topical memoray makes [a man] an
almanac;...a skill to get money makes him a miser, that is, a beggar.
Culture reduces these inflammations by invoking the aid of other powers
against the dominant talent, and by appealing to the rank of powers.
Appeals, Court of, n. (1)
PerF 10.76 27 If we were truly to take account of
stock before the last Court of Appeals,-that were an inventory!
appeals, n. (3)
ET14 5.259 10 Might I [Warren Hastings]...venture to
prescribe bounds to the latitude of criticism, I should exclude...all
appeals to our revealed tenets of religion and moral duty.
Elo1 7.71 3 The more indolent and imaginative
complexion of the Eastern nations makes them much more impressible by
these appeals to the fancy.
PI 8.36 23 What are [the poet's] garland and
singing-robes? What but a sensibility so keen that the scent of an
elder-blow, or the timber-yard and corporation-works of a nest of
pismires is event enough for him,--all emblems and personal appeals to
him.
appeals, v. (6)
NMW 4.245 27 Whatever appeals to the imagination, by
transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully
encourages and liberates us.
Edc1 10.134 18 ...what teaching, what book of this
day appeals to the Vast?
appear, v. (188)
Nat 1.7 12 If the stars should appear one night in a
thousand years, how would men believe and adore;...
Nat 1.34 3 This relation between the mind and
matter...stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all
men. It appears to men, or it does not appear.
Nat 1.45 11 [Words and actions] introduce us to the
human form, of which all other organizations appear to be degradations.
Nat 1.73 26 The axis of vision is not coincident with
the axis of things, and so they appear not transparent but opaque.
DSA 1.128 17 I shall endeavor to discharge my duty to
you on this occasion, by pointing out two errors in [the Christian
church's] administration, which daily appear more gross...
DSA 1.148 27 The silence that accepts merit as the
most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause. Such souls,
when they appear, are...the dictators of fortune.
LE 1.182 9 If [the scholar] have this twofold
goodness,-the drill and the inspiration...then...the perfection of his
endowment will appear in his compositions.
LE 1.182 23 If [the man of genius] be defective at
either extreme of the scale, his philosophy will...appear too vague and
indefinite for the uses of life.
MN 1.211 14 Whenever [poets] appear, they will redeem
their own credit.
MR 1.249 2 The power which is at once spring and
regulator in all efforts of reform is the conviction that there is an
infinite worthiness in man, which will appear at the call of worth...
LT 1.259 5 To appear in these aspects, [the present
aspects of our social state] must first exist...
LT 1.271 20 Nature, literature, science, childhood,
appear to us beautiful;...
LT 1.275 26 Here is great variety and richness of
mysticism, [which]... when it shall be taken up as the garniture of
some profound and all-reconciling thinker, will appear the rich and
appropriate decoration of his robes.
LT 1.287 7 ...it is only when surveyed from inferior
points of view that great varieties of character appear.
Tran 1.342 1 ...it would not misbecome us to
inquire...what these companions and contemporaries of ours think and
do, at least so far as these thoughts and actions appear to be not
accidental and personal...
Tran 1.349 12 You make very free use of these words
great and holy, but few things appear to [Transcendentalists] such.
Hist 2.36 21 Put Napoleon in an island prison, let
his faculties find...no stake to play for, and he would beat the air,
and appear stupid.
SR 2.64 3 What is the nature and power of that
science-baffling star...which shoots a ray of beauty even into trivial
and impure actions, if the least mark of independence appear.
SR 2.76 20 Let a Stoic...tell men...that with the
exercise of self-trust, new powers shall appear;...
Comp 2.100 9 Though no checks to a new evil appear,
the checks exist...
Comp 2.100 10 Though no checks to a new evil appear,
the checks exist, and will appear.
SL 2.155 9 The great man knew not that he was great.
It took a century or two for that fact to appear.
SL 2.157 4 If [the lawyer] does not believe [his
client's innocence] his unbelief will appear to the jury...
SL 2.166 5 Let the great soul incarnated in some
woman's form...sweep chambers and scour floors, and...to sweep and
scour will instantly appear supreme and beautiful actions...
Lov1 2.186 10 ...that which drew [lovers] to each
other was signs of loveliness, signs of virtue; and these virtues are
there, however eclipsed. They appear and reappear and continue to
attract;...
Hsm1 2.251 15 Heroism is an obedience to a secret
impulse of an individual's character. Now to no other man can its
wisdom appear as it does to him...
Hsm1 2.256 23 Simple hearts...would appear, could we
see the human race assembled in vision, like little children frolicking
together...
Hsm1 2.263 2 Whatever outrages have happened to men
may befall a man again; and very easily in a republic, if there appear
any signs of a decay of religion.
OS 2.271 6 ...the soul, whose organ [what we commonly
call man] is, would he let it appear through his action, would make our
knees bend.
Cir 2.306 1 The new statement...to those dwelling in
the old, comes like an abyss of scepticism. But the eye soon gets
wonted to it...then its innocency and benefit appear...
Int 2.329 22 ...the moment [logic] would appear as
propositions and have a separate value, it is worthless.
Int 2.338 6 The conditions essential to a
constructive mind do not appear to be so often combined but that a good
sentence or verse remains fresh and memorable for a long time.
Art1 2.369 5 When science is learned in love, and its
powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and
continuations of the material creation.
Pt1 3.8 17 ...nature...must as much appear as it must
be done, or known.
Pt1 3.36 20 ...instantly the mind inquires whether
these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs
in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to
me...
Pt1 3.36 21 ...instantly the mind inquires whether
these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs
in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to
me, and perchance to themselves appear upright men;...
Pt1 3.36 22 ...instantly the mind inquires whether
these fishes under the bridge, yonder oxen in the pasture, those dogs
in the yard, are immutably fishes, oxen and dogs, or only so appear to
me, and perchance to themselves appear upright men; and whether I
appear as a man to all eyes.
Exp 3.52 5 In truth [men] are all creatures of given
temperament, which will appear in a given character...
Exp 3.53 27 I carry the keys of my castle in my hand,
ready to throw them at the feet of my lord, whenever and in what
disguise soever he shall appear.
Exp 3.56 25 Our friends early appear to us as
representatives of certain ideas which they never pass or exceed.
Chr1 3.103 23 Those who live to the future must
always appear selfish to those who live to the present.
Chr1 3.107 24 There is a class of men, individuals of
which appear at long intervals, so eminently endowed with insight and
virtue that they have been unanimously saluted as divine...
Mrs1 3.155 18 Minerva said...if you called [men] bad,
they would appear so; if you called them good, they would appear so;...
Mrs1 3.155 19 Minerva said...if you called [men] bad,
they would appear so; if you called them good, they would appear so;...
Pol1 3.208 10 The same benign necessity and the same
practical abuse appear in the parties...of opponents and defenders of
the administration of the government.
Pol1 3.221 24 ...there are now men...to whom no
weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear
impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each
other the grandest and simplest sentiments...
NR 3.232 6 How wise the world appears, when...the
completeness of the municipal system is considered! Nothing is left
out. If you go into the markets and the custom-houses...it will appear
as if one man had made it all.
NER 3.255 17 ...the country is full of kings. Hands
off! let there be no control and no interference in the administration
of the affairs of this kingdom of me. Hence the growth of the doctrine
and of the party of Free Trade, and the willingness to try that
experiment, in the face of what appear incontestable facts.
NER 3.263 23 ...the revolt against...the inveterate
abuses of cities, did not appear possible to individuals;...
NER 3.280 4 It only needs that a just man should walk
in our streets to make it appear how pitiful and inartificial a
contrivance is our legislation.
NER 3.281 4 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse
with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that
there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
UGM 4.18 23 If a wise man should appear in our
village he would create, in those who conversed with him, a new
consciousness of wealth...
UGM 4.19 18 [The great man's] class is extinguished
with him. In some other and quite different field the next man will
appear;...
UGM 4.22 1 ...if there should appear in the company
some gentle soul who...certifies me of the equity which checkmates
every false player...that man liberates me;...
UGM 4.31 17 ...if any appear never to assume the
chair, but always to stand and serve, it is because we do not see the
company in a sufficiently long period for the whole rotation of parts
to come about.
PPh 4.55 15 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are
self-poised and spherical. The two poles appear;...
PPh 4.57 10 Where there is great compass of wit, we
usually find excellencies that combine easily in the living man, but in
description appear incompatible.
MoS 4.151 2 In powerful moments, [the genius's]
thought has dissolved the works of art and nature into their causes, so
that the works appear heavy and faulty.
MoS 4.179 8 ...when a man comes into the room it does
not appear whether he has been fed on yams or buffalo...
MoS 4.183 12 ...I know that [facts] will presently
appear to me in that order which makes skepticism impossible.
ShP 4.204 4 ...not until two centuries had passed,
after [Shakespeare's] death, did any criticism which we think adequate
begin to appear.
ShP 4.212 19 Give a man of talents a story to tell,
and his partiality will presently appear.
ShP 4.216 12 If [Shakespeare] should appear in any
company of human souls, who would not march in his troop?
NMW 4.229 9 To be sure there are men enough who are
immersed in things...and we know how real and solid such men appear in
the presence of scholars and grammarians...
ET3 5.34 9 ...[English] fields have been combed and
rolled till they appear to have been finished with a pencil instead of
a plough.
ET4 5.51 10 Neither do this people [the English]
appear to be of one stem, but collectively a better race than any from
which they are derived.
ET11 5.185 11 If one asks...what service this class
[English nobility] have rendered?--uses appear, or they would have
perished long ago.
ET11 5.195 4 ...[English nobles] were expert in every
species of equitation, to the most dangerous practices, and this down
to the accession of William of Orange. But graver men appear to have
trained their sons for civil affairs.
ET13 5.220 8 Heats and genial periods arrive in
history, or, shall we say, plenitudes of Divine Presence, by
which...great virtues and talents appear...
ET14 5.232 13 This homeliness, veracity and plain
style appear in the earliest extant [English literary] works and in the
latest.
ET14 5.241 16 A few generalizations always circulate
in the world... which...appear to be avenues to vast kingdoms of
thought...
ET15 5.268 5 Of two men of equal ability, the one who
does not write but keeps his eye on the course of public affairs, will
have the higher judicial wisdom. But...all the articles appear to
proceed from a single will.
ET19 5.309 18 Mr. Jerrold, who had been announced [at
the Manchester Athenaeum Banquet], did not appear.
F 6.4 27 ...by firmly stating all that is agreeable
to experience on one [topic], and doing the same justice to the
opposing facts in the others, the true limitations will appear.
F 6.12 12 ...in the second generation, if the like
genius appear, the health is visibly deteriorated...
F 6.15 19 One leaf [Nature] lays down, a floor of
granite;...a thousand ages, and a layer of marl and mud; vegetable
forms appear;...
Pow 6.53 11 ...if there be such a tie that wherever
the mind of man goes, nature will accompany him, perhaps there are men
whose magnetisms are of that force to draw material and elemental
powers, and, where they appear, immense instrumentalities organize
around them.
Pow 6.62 9 The same energy in the Greek Demos drew
the remark that the evils of popular government appear greater than
they are;...
Ctr 6.151 10 How the imagination is piqued by
anecdotes...of Goethe, who preferred...to appear a little more
capricious than he was.
Ctr 6.151 21 An old poet says,--Go far and go
sparing,/ For you 'll find it certain,/ The poorer and the baser you
appear,/ The more you 'll look through still./
Ctr 6.157 10 Solitude takes off the pressure of
present importunities, that more catholic and humane relations may
appear.
Ctr 6.165 14 The fossil strata show us that Nature
began with rudimental forms and rose to the more complex as fast as the
earth was fit for their dwelling-place; and that the lower perish as
the higher appear.
Wsp 6.223 20 If you follow the suburban fashion in
building a sumptuous-looking house for a little money, it will appear
to all eyes as a cheap dear house.
Bty 6.296 27 ...the citizens of her native city of
Toulouse obtained the aid of the civil authorities to compel [Pauline
de Viguier] to appear publicly on the balcony at least twice a week...
Bty 6.306 10 ...the woman who has shared with us the
moral sentiment,-- her locks must appear to us sublime.
Elo1 7.64 15 Socrates says: If any one wishes to
converse with the meanest of the Lacedaemonians...when a proper
opportunity offers, this same person...will hurl a sentence worthy of
attention...so that he who converses with him will appear to be in no
respect superior to a boy.
Elo1 7.67 7 ...all these several audiences...which
successively appear to greet the variety of style and topic [of the
orator], are really composed out of the same persons;...
DL 7.130 23 The man, the woman, needs not the
embellishment of canvas and marble, whose every act is a subject for
the sculptor, and to whose eye the gods and nymphs never appear
ancient...
Boks 7.192 24 It seems...as if some charitable
soul...would do a right act in naming those [books] which have been
bridges or ships to carry him safely... into palaces and temples. This
would be best done by those great masters of books who from time to
time appear...
Clbs 7.234 26 ...once in the right company, new and
vast values do not fail to appear.
Cour 7.275 13 ...the rack, the fire...appear trials
beyond the endurance of common humanity;...
OA 7.313 12 I care not if the pomps [clouds] show/ Be
what they soothfast appear,/ Or if yon realms in sunset glow/ Be
bubbles of the atmosphere./
PI 8.3 16 The common sense which...takes...things as
they appear,-- believes in the existence of matter...because it agrees
with ourselves...
PI 8.27 23 William Blake...writes thus... The painter
of this work asserts that all his imaginations appear to him infinitely
more perfect and more minutely organized than anything seen by his
mortal eye.
PI 8.33 26 If your subject do not appear to you the
flower of the world at this moment, you have not rightly chosen it.
PI 8.61 16 [Sir Gawaine said to Merlin] I pray you
appear before me so that I may be able to recognize you.
PI 8.74 14 Poems!--we have no poem. Whenever that
angel shall be organized and appear on earth, the Iliad will be
reckoned a poor ballad-grinding.
SA 8.99 25 ...[manners and talk] require...plenty and
ease,--since only so can certain finer and finest powers appear and
expand.
Elo2 8.114 21 ...you may find [the orator] in some
lowly Bethel, by the seaside...a man who...speaks by the right of being
the person in the assembly who has the most to say, and so makes all
other speakers appear little and cowardly before his face.
Elo2 8.132 9 ...when a great sentiment...makes itself
deeply felt in any age or country, then great orators appear.
Res 8.152 24 Among fossil remains, the willow and the
pine appear with the ferns.
Comc 8.173 12 ...when the men appear who ask our
votes as representatives of this ideal, we are sadly out of
countenance.
QO 8.181 4 Swedenborg, Behmen, Spinoza, will appear
original to uninstructed and to thoughtless persons...
Insp 8.284 24 Often in deep midnights/ I called on
the sweet muses./ No dawn shines,/ And no day will appear:/ But at the
right hour/ The lamp brings me pious light,/ That it, instead of Aurora
or Phoebus,/ May enliven my quiet industry./
Aris 10.50 6 When the lawyer tries his case in
court...his own merits appear as well as his client's.
Chr2 10.100 7 Men appear from time to time who
receive with more purity and fulness these high communications.
Chr2 10.102 27 Such [self-reliant] souls...oftenest
appear solitary...because those who can understand and uphold such
appear rarely...
Edc1 10.134 4 If [a man] be dexterous, his tuition
should make it appear;...
Edc1 10.152 2 Every mind should be allowed to make
its own statement in action, and its balance will appear.
Supl 10.166 7 ...I can well spare the exaggerations
which appear to me screens to conceal ignorance.
Supl 10.171 19 Whenever the true objects of action
appear, they are to be heartily sought.
Prch 10.217 15 The old [religious] forms rattle, and
the new delay to appear;...
Schr 10.278 8 These iron personalities, such as in
Greece and Italy...were formed to...draw the eager service of
thousands, rarely appear [in America].
Plu 10.295 1 ...the first printed edition of the
Greek Works [of Plutarch] did not appear until 1572.
MMEm 10.412 17 ...in dead of night, nearer morning,
when the eastern stars glow or appear to glow with more indescribable
lustre...then, however awed, who can fear?
SlHr 10.438 1 At the time when [Samuel Hoar] went to
South Carolina...he was repeatedly warned that it was not safe for him
to appear in public...
GSt 10.503 25 [George Stearns] gave to each
[patriotic measure] his strong support, but uniformly shunned to appear
in public.
LS 11.6 4 Two of the Evangelists...were present on
that occasion [the Last Supper]. Neither of them drops the slightest
intimation of any intention on the part of Jesus to set up anything
permanent. John especially...has quite omitted such a notice. Neither
does it appear to have come to the knowledge of Mark...
LS 11.6 20 I have only brought these accounts [of the
Last Supper] together, that you may judge whether it is likely that a
solemn institution... would have been established...in a manner so
slight, that the intention of commemorating it should not appear, from
their narrative, to have caught the ear...of the only two among the
twelve who wrote down what happened.
LS 11.15 21 ...it does not appear from a careful
examination of the account of the Last Supper in the Evangelists, that
it was designed by Jesus to be perpetual;...
LS 11.15 24 ...it does not appear that the opinion of
St. Paul...ought to alter our opinion derived from the Evangelists
[concerning the Lord's Supper].
HDC 11.29 15 ...in the eternity of Nature, how recent
our antiquities appear!
HDC 11.64 6 Some interesting peculiarities in the
manners and customs of the time appear in the town's [Concord's] books.
EWI 11.127 13 These considerations...had their weight
[in emancipation in the West Indies]; the interest of trade, the
interest of the revenue, and...the good fame of the action. It was
inevitable that men should feel these motives. But they do not appear
to have had an excessive or unreasonable weight.
EWI 11.137 9 ...every liberal mind...had had the
fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West
Indies].
War 11.161 22 That the project of peace should appear
visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...is very natural.
War 11.161 24 That the project of peace should appear
visionary to great numbers of sensible men; should appear laughable
even, to numbers;...is very natural.
War 11.161 25 That the project of peace should appear
visionary to great numbers of sensible men;...should appear to the
grave and good-natured to be embarrassed with extreme practical
difficulties,-is very natural.
FSLC 11.182 2 Every liberal study is discredited [by
the Fugitive Slave Law],-literature and science appear effeminate...
FSLC 11.198 18 These resistances [to the Fugitive
Slave Law] appear in the history of the statute...
FSLN 11.236 25 Whenever a man has come to this mind,
that there is...no liberty but his invincible will to do right,-then
certain aids and allies will promptly appear...
TPar 11.291 11 I can readily forgive [silence], only
not the other, the false tongue which makes the worse appear the better
cause.
EdAd 11.390 12 As soon as men have tasted the
enjoyment of learning, friendship and virtue, for which the State
exists, the prizes of office appear polluted...
Wom 11.424 9 ...let [women] have and hold and give
their property as men do theirs;-and in a few years it will easily
appear whether they wish a voice in making the laws that are to govern
them.
Wom 11.424 23 When new opinions appear, they will be
entertained and respected, by every fair mind, according to their
reasonableness...
SHC 11.429 10 Citizens and Friends: The committee to
whom was confided the charge of carrying out the wishes of the town
[Concord] in opening the [Sleep Hollow] cemetary...have thought it fit
to call the inhabitants together, to show you the ground, now that the
new avenues make its advantages appear;...
FRO1 11.479 10 ...in the thirteenth century the First
Person began to appear at the side of his Son, in pictures and in
sculpture, for worship...
CPL 11.503 4 Think how indigent Nature must appear to
the blind, the deaf, and the idiot.
FRep 11.525 4 Faults in the working appear in our
system, as in all...
PLT 12.12 12 All these exhaustive theories appear
indeed a false and vain attempt to introvert and analyze the Primal
Thought.
II 12.83 19 Many men are very slow in finding their
vocation. It does not at once appear what they were made for.
II 12.84 3 [Men slow in finding their vocation] ripen
too slowly than that the determination should appear in this brief
life.
MLit 12.329 8 We can fancy [Goethe] saying to
himself: There are poets enough of the Ideal; let me paint the Actual,
as, after years of dreams, it will still appear and reappear to wise
men.
WSL 12.342 12 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual
life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature...
EurB 12.378 7 [The English fashionist's] highest
triumph is to appear with the most wooden manners...
EurB 12.378 10 [The English fashionist's] highest
triumph is...to contrive even his civilities so that they may appear as
near as may be to affronts;...
EurB 12.378 15 [The English fashionist's] highest
triumph is...to invert the relation in which our sex stand to women, so
that they appear the attacking, and he the passive or defensive party.
PPr 12.386 23 It was perhaps inseparable from the
attempt to write a book of wit and imagination on English politics that
a certain local emphasis and love of effect...should appear...
Let 12.400 7 Let every man mind his own, you say, and
I say the same. Only let him mind it with all his heart, and not with
this cold study,- literally, hypocritically, to appear that which he
passes for...
Trag 12.413 21 Whilst a man is not grounded in the
divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of
affection to society...and in calm times it will not appear that he is
adrift and not moored;...
Trag 12.414 2 If a man is centred, men and events
appear to him a fair image or reflection of that which he knoweth
beforehand in himself.
appearance, n. (78)
Nat 1.25 16 Every word which is used to express a
moral or intellectual fact...is found to be borrowed from some material
appearance.
Nat 1.26 17 ...that state of the mind can only be
described by presenting that natural appearance as its picture.
Nat 1.60 21 [The soul] is not hot and passionate at
the appearance of what it calls its own good or bad fortune...
DSA 1.123 11 The least admixture of a lie, - for
example...a favorable appearance, - will instantly vitiate the effect.
Con 1.296 1 Such an irreconcilable antagonism [as
that between Conservatism and Innovation]...must have a correspondent
depth of seat in the human constitution. ... It is...the appearance in
trifles of the two poles of nature
Tran 1.330 13 ...I, [the idealist] says,
affirm...facts which in their first appearance to us assume a native
superiority to material facts...
Tran 1.333 1 The idealist takes his departure from
his consciousness, and reckons the world an appearance.
Tran 1.333 9 The idealist has another
measure...namely, the rank which things themselves take in his
consciousness; not at all the size or appearance.
YA 1.380 16 In Paris, the blouse, the badge of the
operative, has begun to make its appearance in the salons.
YA 1.391 18 ...the development of our American
internal resources...and the appearance of new moral causes which are
to modify the State, are giving an aspect of greatness to the Future...
Hist 2.12 26 ...every animal in its growth, teaches
the unity of cause, the variety of appearance.
Hist 2.20 15 No one can walk in a road cut through
pine woods, without being struck with the architectural appearance of
the grove...
Comp 2.99 15 To preserve for a short time so
conspicuous an appearance before the world, [the President] is content
to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.
Comp 2.105 15 If [the unwise man] has escaped [the
conditions of life] in form and in the appearance, it is because he has
resisted his life...
Fdsp 2.196 22 Shall I not be as real as the things I
see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their
essence is not less beautiful than their appearance...
Prd1 2.229 24 Even lifeless figures, as vessels and
stools--let them be drawn ever so correctly--lose all effect so soon as
they lack the resting upon their centre of gravity, and have a certain
swimming and oscillating appearance.
OS 2.281 23 ...a certain enthusiasm attends the
individual's consciousness of that divine presence [the soul]. The
character and duration of this enthusiasm vary with the state of the
individual, from an ecstasy...which is its rarer appearance,--to the
faintest glow of virtuous emotion...
OS 2.287 24 All men stand continually in the
expectation of the appearance of such a teacher [who speaks always from
within].
Pt1 3.8 25 ...[the poet] is the only teller of news,
for he was present and privy to the appearance which he describes.
Pt1 3.14 16 Wherever the life is, that bursts into
appearance around it.
Pt1 3.21 20 ...the poet is the Namer or
Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance,
sometimes after their essence...
Exp 3.62 9 I find my account in sots and bores also.
They give a reality to the circumjacent picture which such a vanishing
meteorous appearance can ill spare.
Exp 3.78 5 The soul...though revealing itself as
child in time, child in appearance, is of a fatal and universal power,
admitting no co-life.
Mrs1 3.122 23 ...our words intimate well enough the
popular feeling that the appearance supposes a substance.
Pol1 3.215 24 The antidote to this abuse of formal
government is...the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the
principal to supersede the proxy;...
Pol1 3.215 26 The antidote to this abuse of formal
government is...the growth of the Individual;...the appearance of the
wise man;...
NR 3.227 3 I observe a person who makes a good public
appearance, and conclude thence the perfection of his private
character, on which this is based;...
NR 3.232 18 I am very much struck in literature by
the appearance that one person wrote all the books;...
UGM 4.13 21 Men are helpful through the intellect and
the affections. Other help I find a false appearance.
UGM 4.16 13 The indicators of the values of matter
are degraded to a sort of cooks and confectioners, on the appearance of
the indicators of ideas.
PPh 4.54 17 ...primarily there is not only no
presumption against [admirable souls], but the strongest persumption in
favor of their appearance.
MoS 4.149 3 The game of thought is, on the appearance
of one of these two sides [sensation and morals], to find the other...
MoS 4.178 19 ...The astonishment of life is the
absence of any appearance of reconciliation between the theory and
practice of life.
ET12 5.209 2 The race of English gentlemen presents
an appearance of manly vigor and form not elsewhere to be found among
an equal number of persons.
F 6.38 7 Of what changes then in sky and earth, and
in finer skies and earths, does the appearance of some Dante or
Columbus apprise us!
Bty 6.288 21 Goethe said, The beautiful is a
manifestation of secret laws of nature which, but for this appearance,
had been forever concealed from us.
Civ 7.32 27 The appearance of the Hebrew Moses, of
the Indian Buddh... are casual facts which carry forward races to new
convictions...
Art2 7.54 22 ...[Goethe] suggested, we may see in any
stone wall, on a fragment of rock, the projecting veins of harder stone
which have resisted the action of frost and water which has decomposed
the rest. This appearance certainly gave the hint of the hieroglyphics
inscribed on [the Egyptians'] obelisk.
Art2 7.54 27 The amphitheatre of the old Romans,--any
one may see its origin who looks at the crowd running together to see
any fight, sickness, or odd appearance in the street.
DL 7.128 15 There is no event greater in life than
the appearance of new persons about our hearth...
Cour 7.259 11 Those political parties which gather in
the well-disposed portion of the community...always on the defensive,
as if the lead were intrusted to the journals, often written in great
part by women and boys, who, without strength, wish to keep up the
appearance of strength.
OA 7.326 12 ...[the old lawyer] may go below his mark
with impunity, and people will say...He lost his sleep for two nights.
What a lust of appearance...that once degraded him he is thus rid of!
PI 8.26 27 ...against all the appearance [the true
poet] sees and reports the truth, namely that the soul generates
matter.
PI 8.50 26 Richard Owen...said:--All hitherto
observed causes of extirpation point either to continuous slowly
operating geologic changes, or to no greater sudden cause than the, so
to speak, spectral appearance of mankind on a limited tract of land not
before inhabited.
Elo2 8.112 1 ...[in a debate] much power is to be
exhibited which is not yet called into existence, but is to be
suggested on the spot...at the appearance of new evidence...
Comc 8.158 5 ...there is no seeming, no halfness in
Nature, until the appearance of man.
Comc 8.171 11 More food for the Comic is afforded
whenever the personal appearance, the face, form and manners, are
subjects of thought with the man himself.
PC 8.210 21 Consider...what masters, each in his
several province...the novel and powerful philanthropies, as well
as...manufactures, the very inventions...have evoked!-all implying the
appearance of gifted men...
PC 8.220 12 ...power obeys reality, and not
appearance;...
PC 8.226 3 At any time, it only needs the
contemporaneous appearance of a few superior and attractive men to give
a new and noble turn to the public mind.
Schr 10.264 8 This, gentlemen, is the topic on which
I shall speak,-the natural and permanent function of the Scholar, as he
is no permissive or accidental appearance...
Schr 10.265 4 [Poets] have no toleration for
literature; art is only a fine word for appearance in default of
matter.
Thor 10.479 6 The habit of a realist to find things
the reverse of their appearance inclined [Thoreau] to put every
statement in a paradox.
Carl 10.497 10 ...now [the bad time] is coming, and
the only good [Carlyle] sees in it is the visible appearance of the
gods.
HDC 11.67 22 From the appearance of the article in
the Selectmen's warrant, in 1765...to the peace of 1783, the [Concord]
Town Records breathe a resolute and warlike spirit...
War 11.155 13 ...the appearance of the other
instincts [than self-help] immediately modifies and controls this;...
War 11.172 24 We are affected...by the appearance of
a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own
keeping...
War 11.172 27 We are affected...by the appearance of
a few rich and wilful gentlemen who take their honor into their own
keeping...and whose appearance is the arrival of so much life and
virtue.
EdAd 11.391 7 ...the current year has witnessed the
appearance, in their first English translation, of [Swedenborg's]
manuscripts.
II 12.66 15 All men are, in respect to this source of
truth [consciousness]... equal in original science, though against
appearance;...
CL 12.142 26 [DeQuincey said] [Wordsworth's] eyes are
not under any circumstances bright, lustrous or piercing, but, after a
long day's toil in walking, I have seen them assume an appearance the
most solemn and spiritual that it is possible for the human eye to
wear.
CL 12.154 21 Dr. Johnson said of the Scotch
mountains, The appearance is that of matter incapable of form or
usefulness...
Trag 12.410 10 [Sorrow] is superficial; for the most
part fantastic, or in the appearance and not in things.
Appearance, n. (2)
Nat 1.47 9 It is a sufficient account of that
Appearance we call the World, that God will teach a human mind...
Pt1 3.14 14 We stand before the secret of the world,
there where Being passes into Appearance and Unity into Variety.
appearances, n. (32)
Nat 1.48 4 ...what is the difference,
whether...worlds revolve and intermingle without number or end...or
whether, without relations of time and space, the same appearances are
inscribed in the constant faith of man?
Nat 1.76 22 A correspondent revolution in things will
attend the influx of the spirit. So fast will disagreeable
appearances...vanish;...
LT 1.289 3 This ever renewing generation of
appearances rests on a reality, and a reality that is alive.
SR 2.64 17 We first share the life by which things
exist and afterwards see them as appearances in nature...
SR 2.72 26 ...O father, O mother, O wife, O brother,
O friend, I have lived with you after appearances hitherto.
Comp 2.101 1 These appearances indicate the fact that
the universe is represented in every one of its particles.
Comp 2.109 5 That which the droning world, chained to
appearances, will not allow the realist to say in his own words, it
will suffer him to say in proverbs without contradiction.
SL 2.161 3 Common men are apologies for men;
they...accumulate appearances because the substance is not.
PPh 4.61 13 [Plato] has reason, as all the
philosophic and poetic class have: but he has also what they have
not,--this strong solving sense to reconcile his poetry with the
appearances of the world...
MoS 4.166 6 [Montaigne] has been in courts so long as
to have conceived a furious disgust at appearances;...
ET15 5.265 20 I went one day with a good friend to
The [London] Times office, which was entered through a pretty
garden-yard in Printing-House Square. We walked with some
circumspection, as if we were entering a powder-mill; but...we were at
last conducted into the parlor of Mr. Morris, a very gentle person,
with no hostile appearances.
Wsp 6.219 20 Religion or worship is the attitude of
those...who see that against all appearances the nature of things works
for truth and right forever.
Ill 6.323 9 At the top or at the bottom of all
illusions, I set the cheat which still leads us to work and live for
appearances;...
SS 7.9 7 ...the stuff of tragedy and of romances is
in a moral union of two superior persons whose confidence in each other
for long years...against all appearances, is at last justified by
victorious proof of probity...
WD 7.173 5 Seldom and slowly the mask [of illusion]
falls and the pupil is permitted to see that all is one stuff, cooked
and painted under many counterfeit appearances.
Edc1 10.143 9 Let [the youth]...read Tom Brown at
Oxford,-better yet, read Hodson's Life-Hodson who took prisoner the
king of Delhi. They teach the same truth,-a trust, against all
appearances, against all privations, in your own worth...
SovE 10.189 1 ...a sublime confidence is fed at the
bottom of the heart that, in spite of appearances...an eternal,
beneficent necessity is always bringing things right;...
Prch 10.237 19 ...when we...come into the house of
thought and worship, we come with the purpose to be disabused of
appearances...
FSLC 11.188 27 ...whilst animals have to do with
eating the fruits of the ground, men have to to with rectitude, with
benefit, with truth, with something that is, independent of
appearances...
EdAd 11.386 10 Conceding these unfavorable
appearances, it would yet be a poor pedantry to read the fates of this
country from these narrow data.
Milt1 12.263 25 [Milton says] Nor did Ceres,
according to the fable, ever seek her daughter Proserpine with such
unceasing solicitude as I have sought this tou kalou idean, this
perfect model of the beautiful in all forms and appearances of things.
AgMs 12.358 8 This man [Edmund Hosmer] always
impresses me with respect, he is...so disdainful of all appearances;...
appeared, v. (72)
DSA 1.130 13 ...as it has appeared for ages,
[Christianity] is not the doctrine of the soul...
Con 1.317 9 ...the thoughts of some beggarly
Homer...sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and in the
instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
Tran 1.341 4 ...many intelligent and religious
persons...betake themselves to a certain solitary and critical way of
living, from which no solid fruit has yet appeared to justify their
separation.
YA 1.366 12 This inclination [to cultivate the soil]
has appeared in the most unlooked-for quarters...
Hist 2.28 11 More than once some individual has
appeared to me with such negligence of labor...begging in the name of
God, as made good to the nineteenth century Simeon the Stylite...
Comp 2.93 20 It appeared...that if this doctrine
[Compensation] could be stated in terms with any resemblance to those
bright intuitions in which this truth is sometimes revealed to us, it
would be a star in many dark hours...
Comp 2.94 12 [The preacher]...urged from reason and
from Scripture a compensation to be made to both parties [the wicked
and the good] in the next life. No offence appeared to be taken by the
congregation at this doctrine.
Pt1 3.9 5 I took part in a conversation the other day
concerning a recent writer of lyrics...whose head appeared to be a
music-box of delicate tunes and rhythms...
Pt1 3.10 13 I remember when I was young how much I
was moved one morning by tidings that genius had appeared in a youth
who sat near me at table.
Pt1 3.35 26 The noise which at a distance appeared
like gnashing and thumping, on coming nearer was found to be the voice
of disputants.
Pt1 3.36 2 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions,
seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons...
Pt1 3.36 4 The men in one of [Swedenborg's] visions,
seen in heavenly light, appeared like dragons, and seemed in darkness;
but to each other they appeared as men...
Pt1 3.36 14 Certain priests, whom [Swedenborg]
describes as conversing very learnedly together, appeared to the
children who were at some distance, like dead horses;...
Chr1 3.114 2 We shall one day see...that...grandeur
of character acts in the dark, and succors them who never saw it. What
greatness has yet appeared is beginnings and encouragements to us in
this direction.
Mrs1 3.132 15 A circle of men perfectly well-bred
would be a company of sensible persons in which every man's native
manners and character appeared.
Nat2 3.192 14 I have seen the softness and beauty of
the summer clouds floating feathery overhead...whilst yet they appeared
not so much the drapery of this place and hour, as forelooking to some
pavilions and gardens of festivity beyond.
Pol1 3.203 26 That principle [of calling that which
is just, equal; not that which is equal just] no longer looks so
self-evident as it appeared in former times...
NR 3.240 10 A new poet has appeared;...why should we
refuse to eat bread until we have found his regiment and section in our
old army-files?
NER 3.253 7 With these [reformers] appeared the
adepts of homoeopathy, of hydropathy...
NER 3.256 4 The same disposition to scrutiny and
dissent appeared in civil, festive, neighborly, and domestic society.
UGM 4.30 12 Children think they cannot live without
their parents. But, long before they are aware of it, the black dot has
appeared and the detachment has taken place.
PPh 4.74 5 ...Meno has discoursed a thousand times,
at length, on virtue... and very well, as it appeared to him;...
PNR 4.87 10 [Plato's] thoughts, in sparkles of light,
had appeared often to pious and to poetic souls;...
SwM 4.94 10 The human mind stands ever in perplexity,
demanding intellect, demanding sanctity, impatient equally of each
without the other. The reconciler has not yet appeared.
SwM 4.98 13 This man [Swedenborg], who appeared to
his contemporaries a visionary...no doubt led the most real life of any
man then in the world...
ShP 4.203 23 Since the constellation of great men who
appeared in Greece in the time of Pericles, there was never any such
society [as that in Elizabethan England];...
NMW 4.247 18 When [Napoleon] appeared it was the
belief of all military men that there could be nothing new in war;...
GoW 4.285 25 [Goethe's] autobiography...is the
expression of the idea...a novelty to England, Old and New, when the
book appeared--that a man exists for culture;...
ET1 5.10 13 ...[Coleridge] appeared, a short, thick
old man...
ET4 5.54 20 I found plenty of well-marked English
types...a Norman type, with the complacency that belongs to that
constitution. Others who might be Americans, for any thing that
appeared in their complexion or form;...
ET13 5.222 6 Wellington esteems a saint only as far
as he can be an army chaplain: Mr. Briscoll, by his admirable conduct
and good sense, got the better of Methodism, which had appeared among
the soldiers and once among the officers.
ET16 5.280 8 [Carlyle] fancied that greater men had
lived in England than any of her writers; and, in fact, about the time
when those writers appeared, the last of these were already gone.
Wsp 6.227 24 Among the nuns in a convent not far from
Rome, one had appeared who laid claim to certain rare gifts of
inspiration and prophecy...
Bty 6.301 23 When the delicious beauty of lineaments
loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared;...
Clbs 7.230 8 Every metaphysician must have
observed...that...thoughts commonly go in pairs; though the related
thoughts first appeared in his mind at long distances of time.
Clbs 7.247 9 I remember a social experiment in this
direction, wherein it appeared that each of the members fancied he was
in need of society, but himself unpresentable.
Cour 7.271 14 Governor Wise of Virginia, in the
record of his first interviews with his prisoner [John Brown], appeared
to great advantage.
OA 7.332 7 I have lately found in an old note-book a
record of a visit to ex-President John Adams, in 1825, soon after the
election of his son to the Presidency. It...reports a moment in the
life of a heroic person, who, in extreme old age, appeared still erect
and worthy of his fame.
SA 8.93 20 Shenstone gave no bad account of this
influence [of women] in his description of the French woman:... She
strikes with such address the chords of self-love, that
she...electrifies a body that appeared non-electric.
PPo 8.241 16 On the occasion of Solomon's marriage,
all the beasts, laden with presents, appeared before his throne.
PPo 8.242 7 Firdusi...has written in the Shah Nameh
the annals...of Kai Kaus, in whose palace...gold and silver and
precious stones were used so lavishly that in the brilliancy produced
by their combined effect, night and day appeared the same;...
PPo 8.265 3 The Highest is a sun-mirror;/ Who comes
to Him sees himself therein,/ Sees body and soul, and soul and body;/
When you came to the Simorg,/ Three therein appeared to you,/ And, had
fifty of you come,/ So had you seen yourselves as many./ Him has none
of us yet seen./
Grts 8.313 16 ...when the Devil appeared to [Barcena
the Jesuit] in his cell one night, out of his profound humility he rose
up to meet him, and prayed him to sit down in his chair, for he was
more worthy to sit there than himself.
Grts 8.314 2 The populace will say, with Horne Tooke,
If you would be powerful, pretend to be powerful. I prefer to
say...what was said of the Spanish prince, The more you took from him,
the greater he appeared...
Plu 10.305 26 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against
Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay: it appeared to me
captious and labored;...
LLNE 10.326 4 The key to the period [1820 and
following] appeared to be that the mind had become aware of itself.
LLNE 10.328 19 In literature the effect [of
detachment] appeared in the decided tendency of criticism.
LLNE 10.337 9 [The eagerness for reform] appeared in
the popularity of Lavater's Physiognomy, now almost forgotten.
LLNE 10.344 19 ...[Theodore Parker's] character
appeared in the last moments with the same firm control as in the
midday of strength.
LLNE 10.349 1 As we listened to [Albert Brisbane's]
exposition it appeared to us the sublime of mechanical philosophy;...
CSC 10.374 18 ...a great deal of confusion,
eccentricity and freak appeared [at the Chardon Street Convention]...
EzRy 10.395 6 ...[Ezra Ripley]...appeared a modern
Israelite in his attachment to the Hebrew history and faith.
MMEm 10.399 4 I wish to meet the invitation with
which the ladies have honored me by offering them a portrait of real
life. It is a representative life, such as could hardly have appeared
out of New England;...
Thor 10.467 18 One of the weapons [Thoreau]
used...was a whim which grew on him by indulgence, yet appeared in
gravest statement...
LVB 11.94 24 On the broaching of this question [of
the moral character of government], a general expression of
despondency, of disbelief that any good will accrue from a remonstrance
on an act of fraud and robbery, appeared in those men to whom we
naturally turn for aid and counsel.
EWI 11.117 10 It soon appeared in all the [West
Indian] islands that the planters were disposed to use their old
privileges...
EWI 11.137 10 ...every liberal mind...had had the
fortune to appear somewhere for this cause [emancipation in the West
Indies]. On the other part, appeared the reign of pounds and
shillings...
EWI 11.141 10 On sight of these [African artifacts],
says Clarkson, many sublime thoughts seemed to rush at once into
[William Pitt's] mind, some of which he expressed; and hence appeared
to arise a project which was always dear to him, of the civilization of
Africa...
War 11.159 11 When [Assacombuit] appeared at court,
he lifted up his hand and said, This hand has slain a hundred and fifty
of your majesty's enemies within the territories of New England.
ACiv 11.304 19 On the climbing scale of progress,
[the Southerner] is just up to war, and has never appeared to such
advantage as in the last twelvemonth.
SMC 11.374 14 On the ninth, [the Thirty-second
Regiment] marched in support of the cavalry, and were advancing in a
grand charge, when the white flag of General Lee appeared.
FRep 11.534 20 In the planters of this country...the
conditions of the country...forced them to a wonderful personal
independence and to a certain heroic planting and trading. Later this
strength appeared in the solitudes of the West...
Bost 12.192 9 The lions have never appeared [in
Massachusetts] since,- nor before.
ACri 12.292 7 A Mr. Randall, M. C., who appeared
before the committee of the House of Commons on the subject of the
American mode of closing a debate, said, that the one-hour rule worked
well; made the debate short and graphic.
MLit 12.318 24 This new love of the vast, always
native in Germany... appeared in England in Coleridge, Wordsworth,
Byron...and finds a most genial climate in the American mind.
PPr 12.391 20 Whatever thought or motto has once
appeared to [Carlyle] fraught with meaning, becomes an omen to him
henceforward...
appearing, v. (14)
OS 2.277 6 Childhood and youth see all the world in
[persons]. But the larger experience of man discovers the identical
nature appearing through them all.
NER 3.251 11 [The observer of New England's]
attention must be commanded by the signs that the Church, or religious
party...is appearing in temperance and non-resistance societies;...
Cour 7.274 6 There are ever appearing in the world
men who, almost as soon as they are born, take a bee-line to the rack
of the inquisitor...
OA 7.322 3 ...if the life be true and noble, we have
quite another sort of seniors than the frowzy, timorous, peevish
dotards who are falsely old,-- namely, the men...who appearing in any
street, the people empty their houses to gaze at and obey them...
Insp 8.278 28 Bonaparte said: There is no man more
pusillanimous than I, when I make a military plan. I magnify...all the
possible mischances. I am in an agitation utterly painful. That does
not prevent me from appearing quite serene to the persons who surround
me.
Imtl 8.349 7 It is curious to find the selfsame
feeling, that it is...not duration, but a state of abandonment to the
Highest, and so the sharing of His perfection,-appearing in the
farthest east and west.
MoL 10.253 7 See armies, institutions, literatures,
appearing in the train of some wild Arabian's dream.
GSt 10.507 16 Almost I am ready to say to these
mourners [of George Stearns], Be not too proud in your grief, when you
remember...that, after all his efforts to serve men without appearing
to do so, there is hardly a man in this country worth knowing who does
not hold his name in exceptional honor.
LVB 11.91 3 The newspapers now inform us that...a
treaty contracting for the exchange of all the Cherokee territory was
pretended to be made by an agent on the part of the United States with
some persons appearing on the part of the Cherokees;...
II 12.72 17 It is this employment of new means-of
means spontaneously appearing for the new need...that denotes the
inspired man.
appearings, n. (1)
Bty 6.288 1 We know [our friends] have intervals of
folly...but wait there appearings of the genius, which are sure and
beautiful.
appears, v. (183)
Nat 1.4 18 Whenever a true theory appears, it will be
its own evidence.
Nat 1.34 3 This relation between the mind and
matter...stands in the will of God, and so is free to be known by all
men. It appears to men, or it does not appear.
Nat 1.45 12 When [the human form] appears among so
many that surround it, the spirit prefers it to all others.
Nat 1.58 27 It appears that motion, poetry...all tend
to affect our convictions of the reality of the external world.
Nat 1.59 20 Children...believe in the external world.
The belief that it appears only, is an afterthought...
DSA 1.120 22 A more...overpowering beauty appears to
man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue.
MN 1.201 19 That no single end may be selected and
nature judged thereby, appears from this...
MN 1.214 25 The reforms whose fame now fills the
land...fair and generous as each appears, are poor bitter things when
prosecuted for themselves as an end.
LT 1.274 18 ...the compromise made with the
slaveholder...every day appears more flagrant mischief to the American
constitution.
Con 1.296 6 There is a fragment of old fable...which
may deserve attention, as it appears to relate to this subject.
Con 1.308 22 ...I am very peaceable, and on my
private account could well enough die, since it appears there was some
mistake in my creation...
Tran 1.329 12 What is popularly called
Transcendentalism among us, is Idealism; Idealism as it appears in
1842.
Tran 1.355 19 We call the Beautiful the highest,
because it appears to us the golden mean, escaping the dowdiness of the
good and the heartlessness of the true.
YA 1.365 19 ...it now appears that we must estimate
the native values of this broad region to redress the balance of our
own judgments...
Hist 2.30 27 ...where [the story of
Prometheus]...exhibits him as the defier of Jove, it represents a state
of mind which readily appears wherever the doctrine of Theism is taught
in a crude, objective form...
Comp 2.102 22 What we call retribution is the
universal necessity by which the whole appears wherever a part appears.
Comp 2.111 24 One thing [Fear] teaches, that there is
rottenness where he appears.
SL 2.154 6 They who make up the final verdict upon
every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it
appears...
SL 2.158 21 As much virtue as there is, so much
appears;...
Fdsp 2.189 15 ...O friend, my bosom said,/ .../ The
mill-round of our fate appears/ A sun-path in thy worth./
Int 2.332 2 ...in a moment, and unannounced, the
truth appears.
Int 2.332 3 A certain wandering light appears, and is
the distinction, the principle, we wanted.
Art1 2.351 4 ...in every act [the soul] attempts the
production of a new and fairer whole. This appears in works both of the
useful and fine arts...
Art1 2.358 15 In happy hours, nature appears to us
one with art;...
Pt1 3.13 13 Being used as a type, a second wonderful
value appears in the object...
Exp 3.45 20 Did our birth fall in some fit of
indigence and frugality in nature, that she was so sparing of her fire
and so liberal of her earth that it appears to us that we lack the
affirmative principle...
Exp 3.67 5 In the street and in the newspapers, life
appears so plain a business that manly resolution and adherence to the
multiplication-table through all weathers will insure success.
Chr1 3.90 7 The purest literary talent appears at one
time great, and another time small...
Chr1 3.91 5 ...in our political elections, where this
element [character], if it appears at all, can only occur in its
coarsest form, we sufficiently understand its incomparable rate.
Chr1 3.92 19 Nature seems to authorize trade, as soon
as you see the natural merchant, who appears not so much a private
agent as her factor and Minister of Commerce.
Chr1 3.93 24 This virtue [of character] draws the
mind more when it appears in action to ends not so mixed.
Chr1 3.109 26 John Bradshaw, says Milton, appears
like a consul, from whom the fasces are not to depart with the year;...
Mrs1 3.120 21 ...the salt, the dates, the ivory, and
the gold, for which these horrible regions are visited, find their way
into...countries where man... establishes a select
society...which...adopts and makes its own whatever personal beauty or
extraordinary native endowment anywhere appears.
Mrs1 3.123 19 The competition is transferred from war
to politics and trade, but the personal force appears readily enough in
these new arenas.
Mrs1 3.133 25 As the first thing man requires of man
is reality, so that appears in all the forms of society.
Mrs1 3.146 27 The persons who constitute the natural
aristocracy are not found in the actual aristocracy, or only on its
edge; as the chemical energy of the spectrum is found to be greatest
just outside of the spectrum. Yet that is the infirmity of the
seneschals, who do not know their sovereign when he appears.
Nat2 3.194 8 ...it also appears that our actions are
seconded and disposed to greater conclusions than we designed.
NR 3.231 26 How wise the world appears, when the laws
and usages of nations are largely detailed...
NR 3.245 4 The end and the means...life is made up of
the intermixture and reaction of these two amicable powers, whose
marriage appears beforehand monstrous...
NR 3.246 16 We hide this universality if we can, but
it appears at all points.
NER 3.260 7 One tendency appears alike in the
philosophical speculation and in the rudest democratical movements...
NER 3.265 9 ...to [the men of less faith], concert
appears the sole specific of strength.
NER 3.269 9 It appears that some doubt is felt by
good and wise men whether really the happiness and probity of men is
increased by the culture of the mind in those disciplines to which we
give the name of education.
NER 3.282 10 ...[our other self] holds uncontrollable
communication with the enemy, and he answers civilly to us, but
believes the spirit. We exclaim, There's a traitor in the house! but at
last it appears that he is the true man, and I am the traitor.
UGM 4.17 24 The high functions of the intellect are
so allied that some imaginative power usually appears in all eminent
minds...
UGM 4.30 6 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the
monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.
UGM 4.30 8 Presently a dot appears on the animal [the
monad], which enlarges to a slit, and it becomes two perfect animals.
The ever-proceeding detachment appears not less in all thought and in
society.
UGM 4.34 27 In the moment when [any genius] ceases to
help us as a cause, he begins to help us more as an effect. Then he
appears as an exponent of a vaster mind and will.
PNR 4.85 10 This eldest Goethe [Plato]...appears like
the god of wealth among the cabins of vagabonds...
SwM 4.110 26 ...it appears that a mass of manuscript
[by Swedenborg] still unedited remains in the royal library at
Stockholm.
SwM 4.116 17 ...if we choose to express any natural
truth in physical... terms [says Swedenborg], and to convert these
terms only into the corresponding and spiritual terms, we
shall...elicit a spiritual truth or theological dogma...although no
mortal would have predicted that any thing of the kind could possibly
arise...inasmuch as the one precept, considered separately from the
other, appears to have absolutely no relation to it.
SwM 4.126 10 [Swedenborg] delivers golden sayings
which express with singular beauty the ethical laws; as when he uttered
that famed sentence, that In heaven the angels are advancing
continually to the springtime of their youth, so that the oldest angel
appears the youngest...
SwM 4.140 9 The illuminated Quakers explained their
Light, not as somewhat which leads to any action, but it appears as an
obstruction to any thing unfit.
MoS 4.152 7 ...to the men of practical power, whilst
immersed in it, the man of ideas appears out of his reason.
ShP 4.196 17 A great poet who appears in illiterate
times, absorbs into his sphere all the light which is any where
radiating.
ShP 4.205 4 It appears that from year to year
[Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre...
ShP 4.206 6 We tell the chronicle of
parentage...celebrity, death; and when we have come to an end of this
gossip, no ray of relation appears between it and the goddess-born;...
NMW 4.240 1 Those who had to deal with him found that
[Bonaparte]... could cipher as well as another man. This appears in all
parts of his Memoirs...
GoW 4.267 16 ...although [the Quaker and the Shaker]
each prates of spirit, there is no spirit, but repetition, which is
anti-spiritual. But where are his new things of to-day? In actions of
enthusiasm this drawback appears...
ET3 5.43 24 For the English nation, the best of them
are in the centre of all Christians, because they have interior
intellectual light. This appears conspicuously in the spiritual world.
ET4 5.63 9 The brutality of the manners in the
[English] lower class appears in the boxing, bear-baiting,
cock-fighting, love of executions...
ET5 5.93 18 ...it is [Englishmen's] commercial
advantage that whatever light appears in better method or happy
invention, breaks out in their race.
ET6 5.104 23 This vigor [of the Englishman] appears
in the incuriosity and stony neglect, each of the other.
ET12 5.203 24 On proceeding afterwards to examine his
purchase, [Bulkeley Bandinel] found the twenty deficient pages of his
Mentz Bible, in perfect order; brought them to Oxford with the rest of
his purchase, and placed them in the volume; but has too much awe for
the Providence that appears in bibliography also, to suffer the
reunited parts to be re-bound.
ET14 5.251 9 ...the artificial succor which marks all
English performance appears in letters also...
F 6.9 26 It often appears in a family as if all the
qualities of the progenitors were potted in several jars...
F 6.21 7 ...high over thought, in the world of
morals, Fate appears as vindicator...
F 6.28 17 ...when a strong will appears, it usually
results from a certain unity of organization...
Pow 6.72 15 This aboriginal might gives a surprising
pleasure when it appears under conditions of supreme refinement...
Wth 6.93 14 Power is what [men of sense] want...power
to execute their design...which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the
end for which the universe exists...
Ctr 6.137 12 It is not a compliment but a
disparagement...whenever [a man] appears, considerately to turn the
conversation to the bantling he is known to fondle.
Bhr 6.179 23 'T is remarkable too that the spirit
that appears at the windows of the house [the eyes] does at once invest
himself in a new form of his own to the mind of the beholder.
Wsp 6.220 3 ...look where we will...a perfect
reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward. And this appears
in a class of facts which concerns all men, within and above their
creeds.
Wsp 6.220 21 A man does not see that...as he deals,
so he is, and so he appears;...
DL 7.104 13 ...presently begins his use of his
fingers, and [the nestler] studies power, the lesson of his race. First
it appears in no great harm...
Cour 7.266 25 Undoubtedly there is...a warlike blood,
which...does not feel itself except in a quarrel, as one sees
in...cats. The like vein appears in certain races of men and in
individuals of every race.
Suc 7.302 11 This sensibility appears in the homage
to beauty which exalts the faculties of youth;...
OA 7.317 4 ...the essence of age is intellect.
Wherever that appears, we call it old.
PI 8.4 16 First innuendos, then broad hints, then
smart taps are given, suggesting...that matter is not what it
appears;...
PI 8.11 12 [Natural objects'] value to the intellect
appears only when I hear their meaning made plain in the spiritual
truth they cover.
PI 8.13 1 When some familiar truth or fact appears in
a new dress...we cannot enough testify our surprise and pleasure.
PI 8.27 11 ...this power [the perception of the
symbolic character of things] appears in Dante and Shakspeare.
PI 8.44 15 This power [of characterization] appears
not only in the outline or portrait of [Shakespeare's] actors...
PI 8.55 25 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his
Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and
appetency for it. It appears in Ben Jonson's songs...
PI 8.63 21 To true poetry we shall sit down as the
result and justification of the age in which it appears...
Elo2 8.112 24 There is one of whom we took no note,
but on a certain occasion it appears that he has a secret virtue never
suspected...
Elo2 8.115 5 ...in contrast with the efficiency [the
orator] suggests, our actual life and society appears a dormitory.
Elo2 8.119 1 Go into an assembly well excited, some
angry political meeting on the eve of a crisis. Then it appears that
eloquence is as natural as swimming...
Elo2 8.128 5 ...[Dr. Charles Chauncy] so disliked the
sensation preaching of his time, that he had once prayed that he might
never be eloquent; and, it appears, his prayer was granted.
Comc 8.164 20 ...the religious sentiment is the most
real and earnest thing in nature...excluding, when it appears, all
other considerations...
Comc 8.167 11 I have been employed, [Camper] says,
six months on the Cetacea; I understand the osteology of the head of
all these monsters, and have made the combination with the human head
so well that everybody now appears to me narwhale, porpoise or
marsouins.
QO 8.188 20 If Lord Bacon appears already in the
preface, I go and read the Instauration instead of the new book.
QO 8.203 21 ...no man suspects the superior merit of
[Cook's or Henry's] description, until...the artist arrive, and mix so
much art with their picture that the incomparable advantage of the
first narrative appears.
PC 8.220 20 ...wherever a true man appears,
everything usually reckoned great dwarfs itself;...
Insp 8.293 20 By sympathy, each [party in good
conversation] opens to the eloquence, and begins to see with the eyes
of his mind. We were all lonely, thoughtless; and now a principle
appears to all...
Grts 8.308 9 Clinging to Nature, or to that province
of Nature which he knows, [the commander]...works after her laws and at
her own pace, so that his doing, which is perfectly natural, appears
miraculous to dull people.
Imtl 8.343 20 ...wherever man ripens, this audacious
belief [in immortality] presently appears...
Dem1 10.18 11 ...this demonic element appears most
fruitful when it shows itself as the determining characteristic in an
individual.
Dem1 10.19 4 It would be easy in the political
history of every time to furnish examples of this irregular success,
men having a force which without virtue...yet makes them prevailing. No
equal appears in the field against them.
Aris 10.33 21 I observe the inextinguishable
prejudice men have in favor of a hereditary transmission of qualities.
It is in vain to remind them that Nature appears capricious.
Aris 10.41 20 In the Norse Edda it appears as the
curious but excellent policy of contending tribes, when tired of war,
to exchange hostages...
PerF 10.74 20 Look at [man]; you can give no guess at
what power is in him. It never appears directly...
Chr2 10.112 16 ...in America, where are no legal ties
to churches, the looseness appears dangerous.
SovE 10.203 24 ...our later generation appears
ungirt, frivolous, compared with the religions of the last or Calvinist
age.
SovE 10.212 16 ...all the religion we have is the
ethics of one or another holy person; as soon as character appears, be
sure love will, and veneration...
Prch 10.217 20 ...it appears, for the time, as the
misfortune of this period that the cultivated mind has not the
happiness and dignity of the religious sentiment.
MoL 10.256 14 I allow [senators and lawyers] the
merit of that reading which appears in their opinions, tastes, beliefs
and practice.
Schr 10.266 12 ...for the moment it appears as if in
former times learning and intellectual accomplishments had secured to
the possessor greater rank and authority.
Plu 10.305 16 ...the vigor of [Plutarch's] pen
appears in the chapter Whether the Athenians were more Warlike or
Learned, and in his attack upon Userers.
Plu 10.307 20 [Plutarch] is a pronounced idealist,
who does not hesitate to say...The Sun is the cause that all men are
ignorant of Apollo, by sense withdrawing the rational intellect from
that which is to that which appears.
LLNE 10.325 15 There are always two parties, the
party of the Past and the party of the Future; the Establishment and
the Movement. At times...the schism runs under the world and appears in
Literature, Philosophy, Church, State and social customs.
MMEm 10.400 18 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks,
it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff...
MMEm 10.418 5 Happy beginning of my [Mary Moody
Emerson's] bargain, though the sale of the place [Elm Vale] appears to
me one of the worst things for me at this time.
SlHr 10.444 1 [Samuel Hoar's] beauty was pathetic and
touching in these latest days, and, as now appears, it awakened a
certain tender fear in all who saw him, that the costly ornament of our
homes and halls and streets was speedily to be removed.
LS 11.9 7 It appears that the Jews [at Passover] ate
the lamb and the unleavened bread and drank wine after a prescribed
manner.
LS 11.12 14 It appears...in Christian history that
the disciples had very early taken advantage of these impressive words
of Christ [This do in remembrance of me.] to hold religious meetings...
LS 11.13 9 [Early Christian religious feasts] were
readily adopted by the Jewish converts...and also by the Pagan
converts, whose idolatrous worship had been made up of sacred
festivals, and who very readily abused these to gross riot, as appears
from the censures of St. Paul.
HDC 11.41 5 ...it appears from a petition of some
newcomers, in 1643, that a part [of the land in Concord] had been
divided among the first settlers without price...
HDC 11.44 16 As early as 1633, the office of townsman
or selectman appears [in New England]...
LVB 11.91 10 It now appears that the government of
the United States choose to hold the Cherokees to this sham treaty...
EWI 11.101 25 From the earliest monuments it appears
that one race was victim and served the other races.
EWI 11.141 24 It now appears that the negro race is,
more than any other, susceptible of rapid civilization.
EWI 11.143 25 When at last in a race a new principle
appears, an idea,- that conserves it;...
War 11.151 17 War...when seen...in the infancy of
society, appears a part of the connection of events...
FSLC 11.206 13 ...one thing appears certain to me, as
soon as the constitution ordains an immoral law, it ordains disunion.
ACiv 11.299 24 Our whole history appears like a last
effort of the Divine Providence in behalf of the human race;...
ACiv 11.310 19 This state-paper [Lincoln's proposal
of gradual abolition] is the more interesting that it appears to be the
President's individual act...
EPro 11.316 11 These measures [for liberty]...are
received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are
greater and better than we know. At such times it appears as if a new
public were created to greet the new event.
ChiE 11.474 19 ...Sir Frederic Bruce attributed to
Mr. Burlingame the merit of the happy reform in the relations of
foreign governments to China. I am quite sure that I heard from Mr.
Burlingame in New York...that the whole merit of it belonged to Sir
Frederic Bruce. It appears that the ambassadors were emulous in their
magnanimity.
FRep 11.527 21 Our institutions, of which the town is
the unit, are educational... ... The result appears in the power of
invention...
PLT 12.31 13 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing
or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on
that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.
II 12.71 3 In the healthy mind, the thought...appears
in new men...
CL 12.150 8 All [the Indian's] knowledge is for use,
and it only appears in use...
Bost 12.200 20 The American idea, Emancipation,
appears in our freedom of intellection...
MAng1 12.218 13 A beautiful person...appears to have
truer conformity to all pleasing objects in external Nature than
another.
ACri 12.300 12 All conversation, as all literature,
appears to me the pleasure of rhetoric...
MLit 12.311 7 ...[the library of the Present Age]
vents...books...which work dubiously on society and seem to inoculate
it with a venom before any healthy result appears.
MLit 12.313 4 ...a steadfast tendency of this sort
[toward subjectiveness] appears in modern literature.
PPr 12.385 23 ...we may easily fail in expressing the
general objection [to Carlyle's Past and Present] which we feel. It
appears to us as a certain disproportion in the picture, caused by the
obtrusion of the whims of the painter.
Trag 12.413 25 Whilst a man is not grounded in the
divine life by his proper roots, he clings by some tendrils of
affection to society...but let any shock take place in society...and at
once his type of permanence is shaken. The disorder of his neighbors
appears to him universal disorder;...
Trag 12.416 8 The individual who suffers has a
mysterious counterbalance to that condition, which, to us who look upon
her, appears to be attended with no alleviating circumstance.
appease, v. (4)
Chr1 3.113 24 ...we do not know the majestic manners
which belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
ET8 5.142 4 ...to appease diseased or inflamed
talent, the [English] army and navy may be entered...
DL 7.125 22 We do not know the majestic manners that
belong to [a man], which appease and exalt the beholder.
SHC 11.432 8 ...how much more are [parks] needed by
us...to stanch and appease that fury of temperament which our climate
bestows!
appeased, v. (5)
OA 7.327 19 ...at the end of fifty years, [a man's]
soul is appeased by seeing some sort of correspondence between his wish
and his possession.
Imtl 8.349 15 Nachiketas...said, O Death! let Gautama
be appeased in mind...
MAng1 12.241 19 So vehement was this desire [for
death], that, [Michelangelo] says, my soul can no longer be appeased by
the wonted seductions of painting and sculpture.
appeases, v. (1)
Ctr 6.160 8 ...the presence of mountains, appeases
our irritations...
appeasing, adj. (2)
Nat 1.31 19 The poet...bred in the woods, whose
senses have been nourished by their fair and appeasing changes...shall
not lose their lesson altogether...
PPh 4.65 6 What value [Plato] gives to the art of
gymnastic in education;... what to astronomy, whose appeasing and
medicinal power he celebrates!
appendage, n. (1)
appendages, n. (2)
Mrs1 3.134 15 I may easily go into a great household
where there is... excellent provision for comfort, luxury and taste,
and yet not encounter there any Amphitryon who shall subordinate these
appendages.
DL 7.130 16 Why should we convert ourselves into
showmen and appendages to our fine houses and our works of art?
appendix, n. (2)
Plu 10.318 17 The chapters On the Fortune of
Alexander, in [Plutarch's] Morals, are an important appendix to the
portrait in the Lives.
appertain, v. (2)
War 11.165 17 The standing army, the arsenal, the
camp and the gibbet do not appertain to man.
appertaining, v. (2)
Pow 6.69 5 There are Oregons, Californias and
Exploring Expeditions enough appertaining to America to find [men of
this surcharge of arterial blood] in files to gnaw and in crocodiles to
eat.
Wth 6.102 27 ...there are many goods appertaining to
a capital city which are not yet purchasable here [in Boston]...
appetency, n. (2)
Exp 3.77 26 ...the longer a particular union lasts
the more energy of appetency the parts not in union acquire.
PI 8.55 25 Keats disclosed by certain lines in his
Hyperion this inward skill; and Coleridge showed at least his love and
appetency for it.
appetite, n. (41)
DSA 1.121 19 ...in the game of human life, love,
fear, justice, appetite, man, and God, interact.
LT 1.274 7 [The wealthy man] entertains [the
divine]...lodges him; his religion comes home at night, prays,
is...sumptuously laid to sleep; rises...is better breakfasted than he
whose morning appetite would have gladly fed on green figs between
Bethany and Jerusalem...
Hist 2.23 1 At sea, or in the forest, or in the snow,
[a man of rude health and flowing spirits]...dines with as good
appetite...as beside his own chimneys.
Comp 2.101 22 Eyes, ears, taste, smell, motion,
resistance, appetite, and organs of reproduction that take hold on
eternity,--all find room to consist in the small creature.
Nat2 3.186 19 ...we do not eat for the good of
living, but because the meat is savory and the appetite is keen.
NER 3.255 19 ...the motto of the Globe newspaper is
so attractive to me that I can seldom find much appetite to read what
is below it in its columns...
SwM 4.131 11 A vampyre sits in the seat of the
prophet [in Swedenborg's universe] and turns with gloomy appetite to
the images of pain.
MoS 4.184 15 Each man woke in the morning with an
appetite that could eat the solar system like a cake;...
NMW 4.252 3 In intervals of leisure...Napoleon
appears as a man of genius directing on abstract questions the native
appetite for truth...he was wont to show in war.
ET13 5.215 20 The power of the religious sentiment
[in England] put an end to human sacrifices, checked appetite...
Wsp 6.238 22 The race of mankind have always offered
at least this implied thanks for the gift of existence,--namely...the
insatiable curiosity and appetite for its continuation.
Ill 6.311 26 Health and appetite impart the sweetness
to sugar, bread and meat.
DL 7.105 19 [The boy] walks daily among wonders...yet
warm, cheerful and with good appetite the little sovereign subdues them
without knowing it;...
Farm 7.140 6 The farmer has...the appetite of health,
and means to his end;...
Farm 7.149 9 As [the farmer] nursed his Thanksgiving
turkeys on bread and milk, so he will pamper his peaches and grapes on
the viands they like best. If they have an appetite for potash...he
will indulge them.
WD 7.167 27 A farmer said he should like to have all
the land that joined his own. Bonaparte, who had the same appetite,
endeavored to make the Mediterranean a French lake.
Boks 7.201 19 ...we must read the Clouds of
Aristophanes, and what more of that master we gain appetite for, to
learn our way in the streets of Athens...
PerF 10.87 26 ...legislatures listen with appetite to
declamations against [the moral sentiment], and vote it down.
Edc1 10.150 9 Appetite and indolence [young men]
have, but no enthusiasm.
SovE 10.190 2 ...every wish, appetite and passion
rushes into act and embodies itself in usages...
HDC 11.40 20 ...as we are informed, the edge of [the
settlers of Concord's] appetite was greater to spiritual duties at
their first coming, in time of wants, than afterwards.
EWI 11.126 21 ...the [slave] trade could not be
abolished whilst this hungry West Indian market, with an appetite like
the grave, cried, More, more, bring me a hundred a day;...
War 11.159 19 This valuable person
[Assacombuit]...took to killing his own neighbors and kindred, with
such appetite that his tribe combined against him...
FSLN 11.232 12 ...if we are Whigs, let us be Whigs of
nature and science, and so for all the necessities. Let us know that,
over and above all the musts of poverty and appetite, is the instinct
of man to rise...
FSLN 11.241 10 Possession is sure to throw its stupid
strength for existing power, and appetite and ambition will go for
that.
ACiv 11.309 1 ...justice satisfies everybody,-white
man, red man, yellow man and black man. All like wages, and the
appetite grows by feeding.
SMC 11.356 24 All sorts of men went to the [Civil]
war...the adventurous type of New Englander, with his appetite for
novelty and travel;...
Wom 11.410 21 ...[the horse and ox]...say no thanks,
but fight down whatever opposes their appetite.
PLT 12.19 23 Whilst we consider this appetite of the
mind to arrange its phenomena, there is another fact which makes this
useful.
Mem 12.107 5 ...the true river Lethe is the body of
man, with its belly and uproar of appetite and mountains of indigestion
and bad humors and quality of darkness.
MAng1 12.241 16 Towards his end, there seems to have
grown in [Michelangelo] an invincible appetite of dying...
ACri 12.296 2 Montaigne must have the credit of
giving to literature that which we listen for in bar-rooms, the low
speech...words...that have neatness and necessity, through their use in
the vocabulary of work and appetite...
Trag 12.410 22 That which seems intolerable reproach
or bereavement does not take from the accused or bereaved man or woman
appetite or sleep.
appetites, n. (10)
LE 1.177 22 [The scholar's]...appetites...are keys
that open to him the beautiful museum of human life.
MN 1.215 10 ...[the disciple] attached the value of
virtue to some particular practices, as the denial of certain appetites
in certain specified indulgences...
SL 2.140 10 I say, do not choose; but that is a
figure of speech by which I would distinguish what is commonly called
choice among men, and which is a partial act, the choice...of the
appetites, and not a whole act of the man.
F 6.6 6 For certainly, our appetites here/...All this
is ruled by the sight above./
Wth 6.88 25 [A man]...is tempted out by his appetites
and fancies to the conquest of this and that piece of nature, until he
finds his well-being in the use of his planet...
Wsp 6.208 10 In our large cities the population is
godless, materialized,-- no bond, no fellow-feeling, no enthusiasm.
These are not men, but hungers, thirsts, fevers and appetites walking.
PPo 8.250 25 A saint might lend an ear to the riotous
fun of Falstaff; for it is not created to excite the animal
appetites...
Chr2 10.94 3 The antagonist nature is the
individual...with appetites which take from everybody else what they
appropriate to themselves...
Thor 10.454 22 [Thoreau] had...no appetites, no
passions, no taste for elegant trifles.
EWI 11.103 8 For the negro...no security from the
humors, none from the crimes, none from the appetites of his master...
Appian Way, n. (1)
Schr 10.285 22 ...what [Genius] says and does is...on
the great highways of Nature, which were before the Appian Way...
applaud, v. (4)
Elo1 7.78 17 [Caesar]...declaimed to [the pirates];
if they did not applaud his speeches, he threatened them with
hanging...
SA 8.80 15 The staple figure in novels is the
man...who sits, among the young aspirants and desperates...and, never
sharing their affections or debilities...knows his way and carries his
points. They may scream or applaud, he is never engaged or heated.
SovE 10.206 26 We in America are
charged...that...we...do exceedingly applaud and admire ourselves...
applauded, v. (2)
Hist 2.7 2 We sympathize in the great moments of
history...because there law was enacted...or the blow was struck, for
us, as we ourselves in that place would have done or applauded.
Bhr 6.190 18 A man already strong is listened to, and
everything he says is applauded.
applauders, n. (1)
ET5 5.91 23 Lord Elgin, at Athens, saw the imminent
ruin of the Greek remains, set up his scaffoldings...and, after five
years' labor to collect them, got his marbles on ship-board. The ship
struck a rock and went to the bottom. He had them all fished up by
divers, at a vast expense, and brought to London; not knowing that
Haydon, Fuseli and Canova...were to be his applauders.
applause, n. (6)
DSA 1.148 27 The silence that accepts merit as the
most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.
Fdsp 2.195 23 I feel as warmly when [my friend] is
praised, as the lover when he hears applause of his engaged maiden.
Civ 7.17 25 Now speed the gay celerities of art,/
What in the desert was impossible/ Within four walls is possible
again,/--Culture and libraries, mysteries of skill,/ Traditioned fame
of masters, eager strife/ Of keen competing youths, joined or alone,/
To outdo each other and extort applause./
Elo1 7.83 10 ...if one of [the debaters] have
anything of commanding necessity in his heart, how speedily he will
find vent for it, and with the applause of the assembly!
Wom 11.407 11 ...there is usually no employment or
career which [women] will not with their own applause and that of
society quit for a suitable marriage.
Mem 12.92 21 ...in the history of character the day
comes when you are incapable of such crime [of neglect, selfishness,
passion]. Then...you look on it...with wonder at the deed, and with
applause at the pain it has cost you.
apple, n. (22)
Nat 1.65 14 We do not know the uses of more than a
few plants, as corn and the apple...
AmS 1.105 19 They are the kings of the world
who...persuade men...that this thing which they do is the apple which
the ages have desired to pluck...
AmS 1.108 6 The books which once we valued more than
the apple of the eye, we have quite exhausted.
NR 3.242 9 After taxing Goethe as a courtier...I took
up this book of Helena, and found him...a piece of pure nature like an
apple or an oak...
ET5 5.94 19 The French Comte de Lauraguais said, No
fruit ripens in England but a baked apple;...
F 6.7 1 The cold, inconsiderate of persons...freezes
a man like an apple.
Bty 6.306 21 Wherever we begin, thither our steps
tend: an ascent from the joy of a horse in his trappings, up to the
perception of Newton that the globe on which we ride is only a larger
apple falling from a larger tree...the first stair on the scale to the
temple of the Mind.
WD 7.172 26 The Hindoos represent Maia, the illusory
energy of Vishnu, as one of his principal attributes. As if, in this
gale of warring elements which life is, it was necessary to bind souls
to human life as mariners in a tempest lash themselves to the mast and
bulwarks of a ship, and Nature employed certain illusions as her ties
and straps,--a rattle, a doll, an apple, for a child;...
PC 8.222 16 ...when [Newton] saw, in the fall of an
apple to the ground, the fall of the earth to the sun...that perception
was accompanied by the spasm of delight by which the intellect greets a
fact more immense still...
PPo 8.260 22 I have sought for thee a costlier dome/
Than Mahmoud's palace high,/ And thou, returning, find thy home/ In the
apple of Love's eye./
CL 12.145 4 The Rosaceous tribe in botany, including
the apple, pear, peach and cherry, are coeval with man.
CL 12.146 17 I know a whole district...where the
apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native
forest-trees: the apple growing with profusion that mocks the pains
taken by careful cockneys...
MLit 12.312 19 The poetry and speculation of the age
are marked by a certain philosophic turn, which discriminates them from
the works of earlier times. The poet is not content to see how Fair
hangs the apple from the rock...
MLit 12.312 24 ...[the poet] now revolves, What is
the apple to me?...
apples, n. (13)
Cir 2.310 10 The things which are dear to men at this
hour are so on account of the ideas which have emerged on their mental
horizon, and which cause the present order of things, as a tree bears
its apples.
Int 2.333 25 If you gather apples in the
sunshine...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press
them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright
light...
Int 2.334 1 If you gather apples in the
sunshine...and then retire within doors, and shut your eyes and press
them with your hand, you shall still see apples hanging in the bright
light...
Gts 3.165 16 [Men] eat your service like apples, and
leave you out.
ShP 4.217 1 Shakspeare, Homer, Dante, Chaucer...knew
that a tree had another use than for apples...
CbW 6.250 16 Nature...shakes down a tree full of
gnarled, wormy, unripe crabs, before you can find a dozen dessert
apples;...
WD 7.155 9 I, in my pleached garden, watched the
pomp,/ Forgot my morning wishes, hastily/ Took a few herbs and apples,
and the Day/ Turned and departed silent./
HDC 11.27 3 Bulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Merriam,
Flint,/ Possessed the land which rendered to their toil/ Hay, corn,
roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood./
CL 12.146 26 Here [on Estabrook Farm] are varieties
of apple not found in Downing or Loudon. The Tartaric variety, and
Cow-apple...and Beware-of-this. Apples of a kind which I remember in
boyhood...
EurB 12.371 23 ...[Ben Jonson] is a countryman at a
harvest-home, attending his ox-cart from the fields, loaded with
potatoes and apples...
Apples of Knowledge, n. (1)
Appleton, Sergeant, n. (1)
SMC 11.368 25 Here [at the battle of Gettysburg]
Francis Buttrick... Sergeant Appleton...were fatally wounded.
apple-tree, n. (4)
UGM 4.21 15 If I work in my garden and prune an
apple-tree, I am well enough entertained...
Wth 6.104 11 An apple-tree, if you take out every day
for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its
roots, will find it out.
Wth 6.104 14 An apple-tree, if you take out every day
for a number of days a load of loam and put in a load of sand about its
roots, will find it out. An apple-tree is a stupid kind of creature,
but if this treatment be pursued for a short time I think it would
begin to mistrust something.
Wth 6.104 22 ...if you should take out of the
powerful class engaged in trade a hundred good men and put in a hundred
bad...would not the dollar, which is not much stupider than an
apple-tree, presently find it out?
apple-trees, n. (5)
AKan 11.257 7 I think we are to give largely,
lavishly, to these [Kansas] men. And we must prepare to do it. We
must...sell our apple-trees, our acres, our pleasant houses.
CL 12.146 15 I know a whole district...where the
apple-trees strive with and hold their ground against the native
forest-trees...
CL 12.162 4 Where are the best hazel-nuts, chestnuts
and shagbarks? Where the white grapes? Where are the choice
apple-trees?
CW 12.172 8 Still less did I know [when I bought my
farm] what good and true neighbors I was buying...some of them now
known the country through...and...other men not known widely but known
at home, farmers... when witch-grass and nettles grew, causing a forest
of apple-trees or miles of corn and rye to thrive.
AgMs 12.358 3 In an afternoon in April...I traversed
an orchard where boys were grafting apple-trees...
appliance, n. (2)
PPh 4.52 8 A too rapid unification, and an excessive
appliance to parts and particulars, are the twin dangers of
speculation.
appliances, n. (1)
MR 1.246 10 [Infirm people] contrive everywhere to
exhaust for their single comfort the entire means and appliances of
that luxury to which our invention has yet attained.
applicabilities, n. (1)
YA 1.384 25 These rising grounds which command the
champaign below, seem to ask for lords, true lords, land-lords, who
understand the land and its uses and the applicabilities of men...
applicability, n. (6)
Int 2.346 18 The truth and grandeur of [the Greek
philosophers'] thought is proved by its scope and applicability...
FRep 11.513 7 ...it is not...the whole magazine of
material nature that can give the sum of power, but the infinite
applicability of these things...
Let 12.399 18 ...we should not know where to find in
literature any record of...so much power without equal applicability,
as our young men pretend to.
applicable, adj. (1)
EWI 11.132 5 If the State has no power to defend its
own people in its own shipping, because it has delegated that power to
the Federal Government, has it no representation in the Federal
Government? Are those men dumb? I am no lawyer, and cannot indicate the
forms applicable to the case, but here is something which transcends
all forms.
applicant, n. (1)
LLNE 10.345 23 [The pilgrim] thought every one should
labor at some necessary product, and as soon as he had made more than
enough for himself...he should give of the commodity to any
applicant...
application, n. (41)
DSA 1.136 13 Preaching is the expression of the moral
sentiment in application to the duties of life.
MR 1.249 23 We use these words as if they were as
obsolete as Selah and Amen. And yet they have...the most cogent
application to Boston in this year.
MR 1.255 1 The virtue of this principle [Love] in
human society in application to great interests is obsolete and
forgotten.
Hist 2.4 5 ...empire, republic, democracy, are merely
the application of [the first man's] manifold spirit to the manifold
world.
SR 2.82 20 [The work of art] was an application of
[the artist's] own thought to the thing to be done...
Comp 2.114 4 What we buy in a broom, a mat, a wagon,
a knife, is some application of good sense to a common want.
Comp 2.122 16 Our instinct uses more and less in
application to man, of the presence of the soul, and not of its
absence;...
Prd1 2.227 9 The application of means to ends insures
victory and the songs of victory not less in a farm or a shop than in
the tactics of party or of war.
Pol1 3.213 6 Every man finds a sanction for his
simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls
Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor
to make application of to the measuring of land...
SwM 4.105 2 ...the largest application of principles,
had been exhibited by Leibnitz and Christian Wolff, in cosmology;...
SwM 4.114 21 What was too small for the eye to detect
was read by the aggregates; what was too large, by the units. There is
no end to [Swedenborg's] application of the thought.
MoS 4.156 4 If you come near [the studious classes]
and see what conceits they entertain,--they...spend their days and
nights...in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme
built on a truth, but destitute...of justness in its application...
ShP 4.211 2 ...the occasion which gave the saint's
meaning the form...of a code of laws, is immaterial compared with the
universality of its application.
GoW 4.283 3 ...the [German] professor can not divest
himself of the fancy that the truths of philosophy have some
application to Berlin and Munich.
ET5 5.74 3 The Saxon and the Northman are both
Scandinavians. History does not allow us to fix the limits of the
application of these names with any accuracy...
ET7 5.119 27 Madame de Stael says that the English
irritated Napoleon, mainly because they have found out how to unite
success with honesty. She was not aware how wide an application her
foreign readers would give to the remark.
ET10 5.162 11 Of course [steam] draws the [English]
nobility into the competition...in the application of steam to
agriculture...
ET10 5.167 23 ...in these crises [of political
enconomy] all are ruined except such as are proper individuals, capable
of...the application of their talent to new labor.
Bty 6.290 10 It is a rule of largest
application...that in the construction of any fabric or organism any
real increase of fitness to its end is an increase of beauty.
Elo1 7.88 16 Lord Mansfield's merit is the merit of
common sense. It is the same quality we admire in...Franklin. Its
application to law seems quite accidental.
Farm 7.144 11 ...the earth is a machine which yields
almost gratuitous service to every application of intellect.
Cour 7.263 23 The terrific chances which make the
hours and the minutes long to the passenger, [the sailor] whiles away
by incessant application of expedients and repairs.
PI 8.31 25 [The poet] affirms the applicability of
the ideal law to...the present knot of affairs. Parties, lawyers and
men of the world will invariably dispute such an application, as
romantic and dangerous;...
Elo2 8.127 27 The doctor [Charles Chauncy]...had lost
some natural relation to men, and quick application of his thought to
the course of events.
Grts 8.314 17 [Napoleon] has left...a multitude of
sayings, every one of widest application.
Chr2 10.92 26 ...justice is the application of this
good of the whole to the affairs of each one;...
Edc1 10.154 5 The advantages of this system of
emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...it...is of so easy
application...that it is not strange that this calomel of culture
should be a popular medicine.
Prch 10.230 8 [The man of practice or worldly force]
does not forgive an application in the preacher to the merchant's
things.
Schr 10.268 18 ...I prefer no action to misaction,
and I reject the abusive application of the term practical to those
lower activities.
FSLN 11.227 18 ...Mr. Webster and the country went
for the application to these poor men [negroes] of quadruped law.
ALin 11.333 24 ...the weight and penetration of many
passages in [Lincoln' s] letters, messages and speeches, hidden now by
the very closeness of their application to the moment, are destined
hereafter to wide fame.
FRep 11.513 9 ...it is not...the whole magazine of
material nature that can give the sum of power, but the infinite
applicability of these things in the hands of thinking man, every new
application being equivalent to a new material.
PLT 12.23 21 ...what a modern experimenter calls the
contagious influence of chemical action is so true of mind that I have
only to read the law that its application may be evident...
II 12.67 1 I know, of course, all the grounds on
which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring,
the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens: the difference is in
the distribution by pipes and pumps (difference in the aqueduct), and
fine application of it.
MAng1 12.219 9 [The French maxim of Rhetoric, Rien de
beau que le vrai] has a much wider application than to Rhetoric;...
applications, n. (9)
DSA 1.124 11 ...all things proceed out of this same
spirit, which is differently named...in its different applications...
LT 1.286 11 The spiritualist wishes this only, that
the spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...in
all possible applications to the state of man...
Tran 1.336 1 [The Transcendentalist] wishes that the
spiritual principle should be suffered to demonstrate itself...in all
possible applications to the state of man...
Tran 1.350 8 Once possessed of the principle, it is
equally easy to make four or forty thousand applications of it.
Schr 10.264 2 All the sciences are only new
applications...of the one law which [the scholar's] mind is.
Milt1 12.272 14 [Milton's tracts] are all varied
applications of one principle, the liberty of the wise man.
applied, v. (42)
Nat 1.28 8 ...the most trivial of these [natural]
facts...applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual
philosophy...affects us in the most lively...manner.
Nat 1.33 11 These propositions [in physics] have a
much more extensive and universal sense when applied to human life...
LE 1.181 1 Let the scholar appreciate this
combination of gifts, which, applied to better purpose, make true
wisdom.
Comp 2.114 6 It is best to pay in your land a skilful
gardener, or to buy good sense applied to gardening;...
Comp 2.114 7 It is best...to buy...in your sailor,
good sense applied to navigation;...
Comp 2.114 8 It is best...to buy...in the house, good
sense applied to cooking, sewing, serving;...
Comp 2.114 10 It is best...to buy...in your agent,
good sense applied to accounts and affairs.
Exp 3.54 9 Temperament is the veto or
limitation-power in the constitution, very justly applied to restrain
an opposite excess in the constitution...
SwM 4.128 25 Perhaps the true subject of the Conjugal
Love [by Swedenborg] is Conversation, whose laws are profoundly set
forth. It is false, if literally applied to marriage.
GoW 4.277 8 [Goethe] found that the essence of this
hobgoblin [the Devil]...was pure intellect, applied...to the service of
the senses...
ET1 5.9 3 I had visited Professor Amici, who had
shown me his microscopes, magnifying (it was said) two thousand
diameters; and I spoke of the uses to which they were applied.
ET4 5.45 23 It has been denied that the English have
genius. Be it as it may...they have made or applied the principal
inventions.
ET14 5.232 4 A strong common sense...marks the
English mind for a thousand years; a rude strength newly applied to
thought...
ET14 5.242 10 In England these [generalizations]...do
all have a kind of filial retrospect to Plato and the Greeks. Of this
kind is...the theory of Swedenborg, so cosmically applied by him, that
the man makes his heaven and hell;...
ET14 5.245 3 [Hume] owes his fame to one keen
observation...that the term cause and effect was loosely or
gratuitously applied to what we know only as consecutive, not at all as
causal.
Wth 6.93 16 Power is what [men of sense] want...power
to execute their design...which, to a clear-sighted man, appears the
end for which the universe exists, and all its resources might be well
applied.
CbW 6.245 16 The physician prescribes hesitatingly
out of his few resources the same tonic or sedative to this new and
peculiar constitution which he has applied with various success to a
hundred men before.
SS 7.16 5 ...a sound mind will derive its principles
from insight...and will accept society as the natural element in which
they are to be applied.
Art2 7.43 19 ...being applied primarily to the common
necessities of man, [language] is not new-created by the poet for his
own ends.
OA 7.331 7 A literary astrologer, [Goethe] never
applied himself to any task but at the happy moment when all the stars
consented.
Insp 8.281 24 ...in writing a letter to a friend we
may find that we rise to a thought and to a cordial power of expression
that costs no effort, and it seems to us that this facility may be
indefinitely applied and resumed.
Aris 10.49 7 Time was, in England, when the state
stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's
life, if he was killed. Now,if it were possible, I should like to see
that appraisal applied to every man...
PerF 10.77 4 Our stock in life, our real estate, is
that amount of thought which we have had,-and which we have applied and
so domesticated.
PerF 10.86 5 That band which ties [cosmical laws]
together...is universal good, saturating all with one being and aim, so
that each...is only the same spirit applied to new departments.
Prch 10.230 7 The man of practice or worldly force
requires of the preacher a talent, a force...the same as his own, but
wholly applied to the priest's things.
LLNE 10.343 4 I suppose all of [the supposed
conspirators] were surprised at this rumor of a school or sect, and
certainly at the name of Transcendentalism, given nobody knows by whom,
or when it was first applied.
MMEm 10.426 2 How grand [the earth's] preparation for
souls,-souls who were to feel the Divinity, before Science
had...applied its steely analysis to that state of being which
recognizes neither psychology nor element.
Thor 10.451 17 [Thoreau's] father was a manufacturer
of lead-pencils, and Henry applied himself for a time to this craft...
Thor 10.458 8 In 1847, not approving some uses to
which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his
town tax, and was put in jail.
EWI 11.105 15 The man [West Indian slave] applied to
Mr. William Sharpe, a charitable surgeon...
EWI 11.132 13 Let the senators and representatives of
the State [of Massachusetts]...go in a body before the Congress and say
that they have a demand to make on them, so imperative that all
functions of government must stop until it is satisfied. If ordinary
legislation cannot reach it, then extraordinary must be applied.
AsSu 11.251 11 ...I think I may borrow the language
which Bishop Burnet applied to Sir Isaac Newton, and say that Charles
Sumner has the whitest soul I ever knew.
EdAd 11.384 11 [The traveller] reflects on...what
levers, what pumps, what exhaustive analyses are applied to Nature [in
America] for the benefit of masses of men.
RBur 11.442 5 How many Bonny Doons and John Anderson
my jo's and Auld lang synes all around the earth have [Burns's] verses
been applied to!
PLT 12.3 19 Could we have...the exhaustive accuracy
of distribution which chemists use in their nomenclature...applied to a
higher class of facts;...
PLT 12.21 11 The retrospective value of each new
thought is...like a torch applied to a long train of gunpowder.
MLit 12.322 2 With the name of Wordsworth rises to
our recollection the name of his contemporary and friend, Walter Savage
Landor,-a man... whose genius and accomplishments deserve a wiser
criticism than we have yet seen applied to them...
applies, v. (9)
Nat 1.72 9 At present, man applies to nature but half
his force.
DL 7.123 15 ...every man is provided in his thought
with a measure of man which he applies to every passenger.
PerF 10.72 23 The husbandry learned in the economy of
heat or light or steam or muscular fibre applies precisely to the use
of wit.
PerF 10.73 1 What I have said of the inexorable
persistance of every elemental force to remain itself...the same rule
applies again strictly to this force of intellect;...
apply, v. (29)
Nat 1.26 7 Children and savages use only nouns or
names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous
mental acts.
Int 2.339 5 ...if a man fasten his attention on a
single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time,
the truth becomes distorted...
Mrs1 3.143 18 ...a comic disparity would be felt, if
we should enter the acknowledged first circles [of fashion] and apply
these terrific standards of justice, beauty and benefit to the
individuals actually found there.
PNR 4.82 9 In ascribing to Plato the merit of
announcing [the expansions of facts], we only say, Here was a more
complete man, who could apply to nature the whole scale of the senses,
the understanding and the reason.
ET1 5.4 20 The young scholar fancies it happiness
enough to live with people who can give an inside to the world; without
reflecting that they are prisoners, too, of their own thought, and
cannot apply themselves to yours.
ET4 5.67 22 I apply to Britannia...the words in which
her latest novelist portrays his heroine; She is as mild as she is
game, and as game as she is mild.
ET5 5.83 24 [The English] apply themselves to
agriculture, to draining...
ET7 5.124 18 ...as [Englishmen's] own belief in
guineas is perfect, they readily, on all occasions, apply the pecuniary
argument as final.
Cour 7.269 4 The judge...squarely accosts the
question, and by not being afraid of it...he sees presently that common
arithmetic and common methods apply to this affair.
Suc 7.308 14 We may apply this affirmative law to
letters, to manners...
SA 8.99 13 When men consult you, it is...that they
wish you...to apply your habitual view, your wisdom, to the present
question...
Insp 8.271 27 Inspiration is like yeast. 'T is no
matter in which of half a dozen ways you procure the infection; you can
apply one or the other equally well to your purpose, and get your loaf
of bread.
Edc1 10.136 6 Let us apply to this subject
[education] the light of the same torch by which we have looked at all
the phenomena of the time; the infinitude, namely, of every man.
Edc1 10.148 11 Whilst we all know in our own
experience and apply natural methods in our own business,-in education
our common sense fails us...
Edc1 10.154 7 The advantages of this system of
emulation and display are so prompt and obvious...and tutor or
schoolmaster in his first term can apply it,-that it is not strange
that this calomel of culture should be a popular medicine.
SovE 10.199 11 It is the sturdiest prejudice in the
public mind that religion is...a department...to which the tests and
judgment men are ready enough to show on other things, do not apply.
LLNE 10.344 21 I habitually apply to [Theodore
Parker] the words of a French philosopher who speaks of the man of
Nature who abominates the steam-engine and the factory.
LLNE 10.352 6 ...we could not exempt [Fourierism]
from the criticism which we apply to so many projects for reform with
which the brain of the age teems.
AKan 11.257 18 I know that lawyers hesitate on
technical grounds, and wonder what method of relief [for Kansas] the
legislature will apply.
FRep 11.513 24 As if the earth, water, gases,
lightning and caloric had not a million energies, the discovery of any
one of which could...put an end to war by the exterminating forces man
can apply.
FRep 11.542 4 Whilst every man can say I serve,-to
the whole extent of my being I apply my faculty to the service of
mankind in my especial place,-he therein sees and shows a reason for
his being in the world...
PLT 12.45 13 There is indeed this vice about men of
thought, that you cannot quite trust them;...because they...make a
distinction in favor of themselves from the rules they apply to the
human race.
Milt1 12.261 8 We may even apply to [Milton's]
performance on the instrument of language, his own description of
music...
applying, v. (4)
Elo1 7.89 22 By applying the habits of a higher style
of thought to the common affairs of this world, [the orator] introduces
beauty and magnificence wherever he goes.
Res 8.142 3 It was thought a fable, what
Guthrie...told us, that in Taurida, in any piece of ground where
springs of naphtha (or petroleum) obtain, by merely sticking an iron
tube in the earth and applying a light to the upper end, the mineral
oil will burn till the tube is decomposed...
PerF 10.69 15 Art is long, and life short, and [a
man] must supply this disproportion by borrowing and applying to his
task the energies of Nature.
EzRy 10.393 22 An eminent skill [Ezra Ripley]
had...in uncovering the bandage from a sore place, and applying the
surgeon's knife with a truly surgical spirit.
appoint, v. (4)
YA 1.385 11 ...many people...are never happier than
when difficult practical questions...are to be solved. All lies in
light before them; they are in their element. Could any means be
contrived to appoint only these!
Hsm1 2.261 18 ...to live with some rigor of
temperance, or some extremes of generosity, seems to be an asceticism
which common good-nature would appoint to those who are at ease and in
plenty...
HDC 11.57 1 The General Court, in 1647...Ordered,
that every township after the Lord had increased them to the number of
fifty house-holders, shall appoint one to teach all children to write
and read;...
Bost 12.195 17 The General Court of Massachusetts, in
1647, To the end that learning may not be buried in the graves of the
forefathers, ordered, that every township, after the Lord has increased
them to the number of fifty householders, shall appoint one to teach
all children to write and read;...
appointed, adj. (7)
SL 2.137 7 [Our society] is a graduated, titled,
richly appointed empire...
ET12 5.210 20 ...in general, here [at Oxford] was
proof of a more searching study in the appointed directions...
F 6.5 16 On two days, it steads not to run from thy
grave,/ The appointed, and the unappointed day;/...
LLNE 10.340 20 Dr. Channing repaired to Dr. Warren's
house on the appointed evening, with large thoughts which he wished to
open.
appointed, v. (20)
Lov1 2.187 9 [Lovers] resign each other without
complaint to the good offices which man and woman are severally
appointed to discharge in time...
Chr1 3.91 13 [The people] cannot come at their ends
by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be
not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them,
was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
Chr1 3.91 14 [The people] cannot come at their ends
by sending to Congress a learned, acute and fluent speaker, if he be
not one who, before he was appointed by the people to represent them,
was appointed by Almighty God to stand for a fact...
Chr1 3.109 12 When the Yunani sage arrived at
Balkh...Gushtasp appointed a day on which the Mobeds of every country
should assemble...
F 6.49 18 Let us build to the Beautiful Necessity,
which makes man brave in believing that he cannot shun a danger that is
appointed...
Wsp 6.212 17 Only those can help in counsel or
conduct...who were appointed by God Almighty...to stand for this which
they uphold.
Clbs 7.240 14 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who
converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play
into an ardent advocate?
Suc 7.293 1 Self-trust is the first secret of
success, the belief that if you are here the authorities of the
universe put you here...with some task strictly appointed you in your
constitution...
PPo 8.239 3 [The religion of the East] distinguishes
only two days in each man's history,-his birthday, called the Day of
the Lot, and the Day of Judgment. Courage and absolute submission to
what is appointed him are his virtues.
PPo 8.262 7 The falcon answered [the nightingale], Be
all ear:/ I, experienced in affairs,/ See fifty things, say never one;/
But thee the people prizes not,/ Who, doing nothing, say'st a
thousand./ To me, appointed to the chase,/ The king's hand gives the
grouse's breast;/ Whilst a chatterer like thee/ Must gnaw worms in the
thorn. Farewell!/
Plu 10.293 14 [Plutarch] has been represented...as
having been appointed by [Trajan] the governor of Greece.
Plu 10.306 2 [Plutarch's] poor indignation against
Herodotus was perhaps a youthful prize essay...or perhaps, at a
rhetorician's school, the subject of Herodotus being the lesson of the
day, Plutarch was appointed by lot to take the adverse side.
Thor 10.466 15 The result of the recent survey of the
Water Commissioners appointed by the State of Massachusetts [Thoreau]
had reached by his private experiments...
HDC 11.44 16 As early as 1633, the office of townsman
or selectman appears [in New England], who seems first to have been
appointed by the General Court...
HDC 11.54 25 In 1639, our first selectmen [from
Concord]...were appointed.
HDC 11.57 17 In 1654, the four united New England
Colonies agreed to raise 270 foot and 40 horse, to reduce Ninigret,
Sachem of the Niantics, and appointed Major Simon Willard, of this town
[Concord], to the command.
HCom 11.341 20 It is not the Government, but the War,
that has appointed the good generals...
Bost 12.188 23 ...Boston commands attention as the
town which was appointed in the destiny of nations to lead the
civilization of North America.
MAng1 12.224 3 When the Florentines united themselves
with Venice, England and France, to oppose the power of the Emperor
Charles V., Michael Angelo was appointed Military Architect and
Engineer, to superintend the erection of the necessary works.
appointing, v. (2)
Chr2 10.118 1 The churches already indicate the new
spirit in adding to the perennial office of teaching, beneficent
activities,-as in...appointing almoners to the helpless...
HDC 11.44 13 ...each little company [in the
Massachusetts Bay colonies] organized itself after the pattern of the
larger town, by appointing its constable, and other petty half-military
officers.
appointment, n. (5)
NMW 4.243 9 The necessity of [Napoleon's] position
required a hospitality to every sort of talent, and its appointment to
trusts;...
Suc 7.294 26 The time your rival spends in dressing
up his work for effect... you spend in study and experiments towards
real knowledge and efficiency. He has thereby...got the appointment;
but you have raised yourself into a higher school of art...
EWI 11.113 20 The Ministers...proposed to give the
[West Indian] planters...20,000,000 pounds sterling...to be distributed
to the owners of slaves by commissioners, whose appointment and duties
were regulated by the Act [of emancipation].
EWI 11.114 6 ...the bill [for emancipation in the
West Indies] required the appointment of magistrates who should hear
every complaint of the apprentice and see that justice was done him.
Bost 12.189 14 The [Massachusetts Bay]
territory-conferred on the patentees...with...the sole power of
legislation, the appointment of all officers and all forms of
government-extended from the 40th to the 48th degree of north
latitude...
appointments, n. (3)
ET6 5.107 4 All the world praises the comfort and
private appointments of an English inn, and of English households.
Schr 10.278 22 ...I chiefly wish to infer the dignity
of [the scholar's] work by the lustre of his appointments.
appoints, v. (5)
Clbs 7.240 15 What can you do with Beaumarchais, who
converts the censor whom the court has appointed to stifle his play
into an ardent advocate? The court appoints another censor, who shall
crush it this time. Beaumarchais persuades him to defend it.
Clbs 7.240 18 The court successively appoints three
more severe inquisitors; Beaumarchais converts them all into triumphant
vindicators of the play which is to bring in the Revolution.
Supl 10.176 19 ...[Nature] appoints us to keep within
the sharp boundaries of form as the condition of our strength...
apportioned, adj. (1)
WD 7.178 25 ...Homer said, The gods ever give to
mortals their apportioned share of reason only on one day.
apportionment, n. (1)
Pol1 3.213 7 Every man finds a sanction for his
simplest claims and deeds, in decisions of his own mind, which he calls
Truth and Holiness. ... This truth and justice men presently endeavor
to make application of to...the apportionment of service...
appraisal, n. (1)
Aris 10.49 7 Time was, in England, when the state
stipulated beforehand what price should be paid for each citizen's
life, if he was killed. Now,if it were possible, I should like to see
that appraisal applied to every man...
appreciable, adj. (2)
Int 2.328 12 I have been floated into hour...by
secret currents of might and mind, and my ingenuity and wilfulness have
not thwarted, have not aided to an appreciable degree.
appreciate, v. (13)
YA 1.365 22 ...it now appears that we must estimate
the native values of this broad region to...appreciate the advantages
opened to the human race in this country...
ET14 5.248 27 Coleridge...is one of those who save
England from the reproach of no longer possessing the capacity to
appreciate what rarest wit the island has yielded.
Farm 7.153 22 [The farmer] is a person whom a poet of
any clime...would appreciate as being really a piece of the old
Nature...
Suc 7.297 7 ...our difference of wit appears to be
only a difference of... power to appreciate faint, fainter and
infinitely faintest voices and visions.
LVB 11.95 26 A man [Van Buren] with your experience
in affairs must have seen cause to appreciate the futility of
opposition to the moral sentiment.
FSLN 11.241 24 It is a potent support and ally to a
brave man standing single, or with a few, for the right...to know that
better men in other parts of the country appreciate the service...
SMC 11.370 4 When Colonel Gurney, of the Ninth
[Regiment], came to him the next day to tell him that folks are just
beginning to appreciate the Thirty-second Regiment...Colonel Prescott
notes in his journal,-Pity they have not found it out before it was all
gone.
PLT 12.6 12 My belief in the use of a course of
philosophy is that the student shall learn to appreciate the miracle of
the mind;...
MAng1 12.223 1 Seeing these works [of art], we
appreciate the taste which led Michael Angelo...to cover the walls of
churches with unclothed figures...
MAng1 12.238 24 It has been the defect of some great
men that they did not duly appreciate or did not confess the talents
and virtues of others...
appreciated, v. (6)
Wsp 6.226 4 He who has acquired the ability may wait
securely the occasion of making it felt and appreciated...
Suc 7.294 20 I pronounce that young man happy who is
content with having acquired the skill which he had aimed at, and waits
willingly when the occasion of making it appreciated shall arrive...
EzRy 10.390 14 [Ezry Ripley] was a man so kind and
sympathetic...that he was very justly appreciated in this community.
MAng1 12.215 19 The means, the materials of
[Michelangelo's] activity, were coarse enough to be appreciated...
appreciates, v. (3)
Aris 10.44 17 If I bring another [man into an
estate], he sees what he should do with it. He appreciates the
water-privilege...
appreciating, adj. (1)
ShP 4.210 9 Some able and appreciating critics think
no criticism on Shakspeare valuable that does not rest purely on the
dramatic merit;...
appreciating, v. (1)
ET14 5.259 20 ...there is at all times a minority of
profound minds existing in the nation [England], capable of
appreciating every soaring of intellect...
appreciation, n. (8)
ShP 4.204 20 ...there is in all cultivated minds a
silent appreciation of [Shakespeare's] superlative power and beauty...
SA 8.79 12 [Fine manners] is music and sculpture and
picture to many who do not pretend to appreciation of those arts.
QO 8.198 4 The bold theory of Delia Bacon, that
Shakspeare's plays were written by a society of wits...had plainly for
her the charm of the superior meaning they would acquire when read
under this light; this idea of the authorship controlling our
appreciation of the works themselves.
Milt1 12.252 17 We think we have seen and heard
criticism upon [Milton' s] poems, which the bard himself would have
more valued than the recorded praise of Dryden, Addison and Johnson,
because it...was finer and closer appreciation;...
WSL 12.344 3 ...beyond his delight in genius and his
love of individual and civil liberty, Mr. Landor has a perception that
is much more rare, the appreciation of character.
appreciator, n. (1)
appreciators, n. (1)
Bost 12.187 20 Astronomers come [to Paris] because
there they can find apparatus and companions. Chemist, geologist,
artist, musician, dancer, because there only are grandees and their
patronage, appreciators and patrons.
apprehend, v. (9)
Nat 1.12 13 Yet although low, [Commodity]...is the
only use of nature which all men apprehend.
MN 1.213 24 ...if you incline your mind, you will
apprehend [the Intelligible]...
Int 2.331 21 We all but apprehend, we dimly forebode
the truth.
Chr1 3.99 24 ...[the ingenious man] shall stand
stoutly in his place and let me apprehend, if it were only his
resistance;...
PPh 4.49 22 You are fit (says the supreme Krishna to
a sage) to apprehend that you are not distinct from me.
PI 8.48 26 ...when [people] apprehend real rhymes,
namely, the correspondence of parts in Nature...they do not longer
value rattles and ding-dongs...
Grts 8.308 19 This necessity...of speaking your
private thought and experience, few young men apprehend.
LS 11.19 5 ...the use of the elements [of the Lord's
Supper]...is foreign and unsuited to affect us. Whatever long usage and
strong association may have done in some individuals to deaden this
repulsion, I apprehend that their use is rather tolerated than loved by
any of us.
apprehended, v. (8)
AmS 1.99 4 ...when thoughts are no longer
apprehended...[the artist] has always the resource to live.
PPh 4.57 12 The mind of Plato...is to be apprehended
by an original mind in the exercise of its original power.
MoS 4.178 21 Reason...is apprehended, now and then,
for a serene and profound moment...
NMW 4.248 22 The winter, says Napoleon, is not the
most unfavorable season for the passage of lofty mountains. The snow is
then firm...and there is nothing to fear from avalanches, the real and
only danger to be apprehended in the Alps.
FSLN 11.234 25 The teachings of the Spirit can be
apprehended only by the same spirit that gave them forth.
apprehending, v. (2)
UGM 4.22 11 ...if there should appear in the company
some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions
of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;... ... I am
made immortal by apprehending my possession of incorruptible goods.
PLT 12.53 15 Every sincere man is right, or, to make
him right, only needs a little larger dose of his own personality.
Excellent in his own way by means of not apprehending the gift of
another.
apprehends, v. (6)
Nat 1.4 4 [Man] acts [his condition] as life, before
he apprehends it as truth.
Insp 8.293 10 Homer said, When two come together, one
apprehends before the other;...
Chr2 10.103 4 ...the memory and tradition of such a
[steadfast] leader is preserved in some strange way by those who only
half understand him, until a true disciple comes, who apprehends and
interprets every word.
Edc1 10.144 21 Somewhat [the child] sees in forms or
hears in music or apprehends in mathematics...which no one else sees or
hears or believes.
apprehension, n. (25)
Nat 1.23 3 Therefore does beauty, which...comes
unsought...remain for the apprehension and pursuit of the intellect;...
DSA 1.120 14 Behold these out-running laws, which our
imperfect apprehension can see tend this way and that...
LT 1.265 25 ...souls of as lofty a port as any in
Greek or Roman fame might appear;...men of...an apprehension which
looks over all history and everywhere recognizes its own.
Tran 1.343 18 ...to behold the beauty lodged in a
human being, with such vivacity of apprehension that I am instantly
forced home to inquire if I am not deformity itself;...these are
degrees on the scale of human happiness to which [Transcendentalists]
have ascended;...
Hist 2.17 4 By a deeper apprehension...the artist
attains the power of awakening other souls to a given activity.
SL 2.142 17 ...whatever in his apprehension is worth
doing, that let [a man] communicate...
Lov1 2.182 12 By conversation with that which is in
itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly, and just, the lover comes to a
warmer love of these nobilities, and a quicker apprehension of them.
Fdsp 2.196 23 Shall I not be as real as the things I
see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are. Their
essence is not less beautiful than their appearance, though it needs
finer organs for its apprehension.
Prd1 2.236 23 ...the proper administration of outward
things will always rest on a just apprehension of their cause and
origin;...
Hsm1 2.263 11 It may calm the apprehension of
calamity in the most susceptible heart to see how quick a bound Nature
has set to the utmost infliction of malice.
OS 2.281 7 Every distinct apprehension of this
central commandment [of the soul] agitates men with awe and delight.
Cir 2.309 11 Valor consists in the power of
self-recovery, so that a man... cannot be out-generalled, but put him
where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to
his past apprehension of truth...
SwM 4.132 8 It requires, for [Swedenborg's] just
apprehension, almost a genius equal to his own.
ET14 5.246 15 Dickens, with preternatural
apprehension of the language of manners and the varieties of street
life;...writes London tracts.
Wsp 6.238 17 If there ever was a good man, be certain
there was another and will be more. And so in relation to...that
spectre clothed with beauty at our curtain by night, at our table by
day,--the apprehension, the assurance of a coming change.
DL 7.130 1 ...let [a man] not think that a property
in beautiful objects is necessary to his apprehension of them...
WD 7.179 10 'T is the measure of a man,--his
apprehension of a day.
Edc1 10.135 1 We exercise [boys'] understandings to
the apprehension and comparison of some facts...
SlHr 10.444 25 [Samuel Hoar's] ability lay in the
clear apprehension and the powerful statement of the material points of
his case.
PLT 12.45 22 There are men of great
apprehension...who easily entertain ideas, but are not exact...
Mem 12.100 26 Apprehension of the whole sentence aids
to fix the precise meaning of a particular word...
Let 12.399 16 ...we should not know where to find in
literature any record of...such undeniable apprehension without
talent...as our young men pretend to.
apprehensions, n. (3)
Elo2 8.129 16 ...said [Lord Ashley], if I, who had no
personal concern in the question, was so overpowered with my own
apprehensions that I could not find words to express myself, what must
be the case of one whose life depended on his own abilities to defend
it?
LVB 11.95 17 ...a letter addressed as mine is [to Van
Buren], and suggesting to the mind of the Executive the plain
obligations of man, has a burlesque character in the apprehensions of
some of my friends.
apprehensive, adj. (5)
NER 3.281 1 Let a clear, apprehensive mind...converse
with the most commanding poetic genius, I think it would appear that
there was no inequality such as men fancy, between them;...
ShP 4.208 7 Shakspeare is the only biographer of
Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in
us, that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour.
Pow 6.76 6 Many men are knowing, many are
apprehensive and tenacious, but they do not rush to a decision.
Ctr 6.150 4 The head of a commercial house...is
brought into daily contact with...the driving-wheels, the business men
of each section, and one can hardly suggest for an apprehensive man a
more searching culture.
Schr 10.278 3 I think there is no more intellectual
people than ours. They are very apprehensive and curious.
apprentice, n. (9)
YA 1.368 16 ...the culture of years will never make
the most painstaking apprentice [the man of genius's] equal...
Schr 10.264 12 [The scholar] is...here to revere the
dominion of a serene necessity and be its pupil and apprentice by
tracing everything home to a cause;...
EWI 11.108 4 John Woolman of New Jersey, whilst yet
an apprentice, was uneasy in his mind when he was set to write a bill
of sale of a negro, for his master.
EWI 11.114 4 ...every provision of the bill [for
emancipation in the West Indies] was criticised with severity. The new
relation between the master and the apprentice, it was feared, would be
mischievous;...
EWI 11.114 7 ...the bill [for emancipation in the
West Indies] required the appointment of magistrates who should hear
every complaint of the apprentice and see that justice was done him.
EWI 11.119 16 The power of the [Jamaican]
planters...to oppress, was greater than the power of the apprentice and
of his guardians to withstand.
MAng1 12.220 15 Granacci, a painter's apprentice,
having lent [Michelangelo], when a boy, a print of Saint Antony beaten
by devils, together with some colors and pencils, he went to the
fish-market to observe the form and color of fins and of the eyes of
fish.
apprenticed, adj. (1)
EWI 11.112 9 The scheme of the
Minister...proposed...that on 1st August, 1834, all persons [in the
West Indies] now slaves should be entitled to be registered as
apprenticed laborers...
apprenticed, v. (1)
apprentices, n. (6)
ET10 5.154 25 When Sir S. Romilly proposed his bill
forbidding parish officers to bind children apprentices at a greater
distance than forty miles from their home, Peel opposed...
Ctr 6.161 21 ...there are higher secrets of culture,
which are not for the apprentices but for proficients.
EWI 11.117 13 It soon appeared in all the [West
Indian] islands that the planters were disposed to use their old
privileges, and overwork the apprentices;...
EWI 11.119 19 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton declared
that the [Jamaican] planter had not fulfilled his part in the
[emancipation] contract, whilst the apprentices had fulfilled
theirs;...
CL 12.158 27 ...I have sometimes thought it would be
well to publish an Art of Walking, with Easy Lessons for Beginners.
These we call apprentices.
CW 12.177 14 [Walking] is a fine art;-there are
degrees of proficiency, and we distinguish the professors of that
science from the apprentices.
apprentice's, n. (1)
EWI 11.112 16 ...the praedials [in the West Indies]
should owe three fourths of the profits of their labor to their masters
for six years, and the non-praedials for four years. The other fourth
of the apprentice's time was to be his own...
apprentices ['prentices], n. (1)
ShP 4.193 6 Here [in the Elizabethan drama] is...a
shelf full of English history...and a string of doleful tragedies,
merry Italian tales and Spanish voyages, which all the London
'prentices know.
apprenticeship, adj. (2)
EWI 11.113 22 The apprenticeship system [in the West
Indies] is understood to have proceeded from Lord Brougham...
EWI 11.114 14 It was feared that the interest of the
master and servant [in the West Indies] would now produce perpetual
discord between them. In the island of Antigua...these objections had
such weight that the legislature rejected the apprenticeship system...
apprenticeship, n. (7)
AmS 1.81 20 ...our long apprenticeship to the
learning of other lands, draws to a close.
Cir 2.301 13 Our life is an apprenticeship to the
truth that around every circle another can be drawn;...
Wth 6.118 10 It is commonly observed that a sudden
wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor
family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship
to wealth...
Suc 7.290 13 I hate this shallow Americanism which
hopes...to learn... mastery without apprenticeship...
EWI 11.119 21 Lord Brougham and Mr. Buxton...demanded
that the emancipation [in the West Indies] should be hastened, and the
apprenticeship abolished.
EWI 11.120 1 ...the great island of
Jamaica...resolved to throw up the two remaining years of
apprenticeship, and to emancipate absolutely on the 1st August, 1838.
FRep 11.514 5 In our popular politics you may note
that each aspirant who rises above the crowd, however at first making
his obedient apprenticeship in party tactics...soon learns that it is
by no means by obeying the vulgar weathercock of his party...that real
power is gained...
apprenticeships, n. (1)
apprise, v. (4)
Cir 2.314 2 ...we now and then detect in nature
slight dislocations which apprise us that this surface on which we now
stand is not fixed, but sliding.
F 6.38 8 Of what changes then in sky and earth, and
in finer skies and earths, does the appearance of some Dante or
Columbus apprise us!
EPro 11.316 10 These measures [for liberty]...are
received into a sympathy so deep as to apprise us that mankind are
greater and better than we know.
apprised, v. (13)
OS 2.290 2 When we see those whom [the soul]
inhabits, we are apprised of new degrees of greatness.
Pt1 3.17 4 ...we are apprised of the divineness of
this superior use of things...in this, that there is no fact in nature
which does not carry the whole sense of nature;...
Pt1 3.39 9 [The artist] hears a voice, he sees a
beckoning. Then he is apprised, with wonder, what herds of daemons hem
him in.
Exp 3.71 11 When I converse with a profound mind...I
am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of
life.
ET15 5.270 17 Sympathizing with, and speaking for the
class that rules the hour, yet being apprised of every
ground-swell...[the editors of the London Times] detect the first
tremblings of change.
CbW 6.272 6 Our conversation once and again has
apprised us that we belong to better circles than we have yet
beheld;...
Elo1 7.63 8 No one can survey the face of an excited
assembly, without being apprised of new opportunity for painting in
fire human thought...
WD 7.174 10 ...every man in moments of deeper thought
is apprised that he is repeating the experiences of the people in the
streets of Thebes or Byzantium.
PI 8.63 3 We are sometimes apprised that there is a
mental power and creation more excellent that anything which is
commonly called philosophy and literature;...
FRO1 11.479 14 ...as soon as every man is apprised of
the Divine Presence within his own mind...then we have a religion that
exalts...
FRO1 11.479 16 ...as soon as every man...is apprised
that the perfect law of duty corresponds with the laws of chemistry, of
vegetation, of astronomy, as face to face in a glass;...then we have a
religion that exalts...
PLT 12.19 14 ...when we have come, by a divine
leading, into the inner firmament, we are apprised of the unreality or
representative character of what we esteemed final.
II 12.67 24 ...when the eye cannot detect the
juncture of the skilful mosaic, the spirit is apprised of disunion...
apprises, v. (5)
Pt1 3.5 3 [The poet]...apprises us not of his wealth,
but of the common wealth.
NER 3.280 24 ...all frank and searching conversation,
in which a man lays himself open to his brother, apprises each of their
radical unity.
UGM 4.22 6 ...if there should appear in the company
some gentle soul who...apprises me of my independence on any conditions
of country, or time, or human body,--that man liberates me;...
GoW 4.263 22 A new thought or a crisis of passion
apprises [the writer] that all that he has yet learned and written is
exoteric...
apprising, v. (1)
PLT 12.25 16 I never hear a good speech at caucus or
at cattle-show but it helps me...by apprising me of admirable uses to
which what I know can be turned.
apprize, v. (2)
Nat 1.63 17 Let [the ideal theory] stand
then...merely as a useful introductory hypothesis, serving to apprize
us of the eternal distinction between the soul and the world.
MR 1.229 20 The fact that a new thought and hope have
dawned in your breast, should apprize you that in the same hour a new
light broke in upon a thousand private hearts.
apprized, v. (2)
Nat 1.51 19 ...a low degree of the sublime is felt,
from the fact...that man is hereby apprized that...something in himself
is stable.
LT 1.264 11 ...in the wild hope of a mountain boy,
called by city boys very ignorant, because they do not know what his
hope has certainly apprized him shall be;...is to be found that which
shall constitute the times to come...
apprizes, v. (1)
Nat 1.50 16 ...a small alteration in our local
position, apprizes us of a dualism.
approach, n. (24)
Hist 2.18 16 A lady with whom I was riding in the
forest said to me that the woods always seemed to her to wait, as if
the genii who inhabit them suspended their deeds until the wayfarer had
passed onward; a thought which poetry has celebrated in the dance of
the fairies, which breaks off on the approach of human feet.
Fdsp 2.192 7 See, in any house where virtue and
self-respect abide, the palpitation which the approach of a stranger
causes.
Fdsp 2.193 17 How beautiful, on their approach to
this beating heart, the steps and forms of the gifted and the true!
Mrs1 3.152 22 [Youth] have yet to learn that [ our
society's] seeming grandeur is shadowy and relative...its proudest
gates will fly open at the approach of their courage and virtue.
UGM 4.27 25 [Geniuses] are very attractive, and seem
at a distance our own: but we are hindered on all sides from approach.
PPh 4.55 22 ...our enlarged powers at the approach
and at the departure of a friend;...this command of two elements must
explain the power and the charm of Plato.
ET1 5.15 27 [Carlyle] had names of his own for all
the matters familiar to his discourse. Blackwood's was the sand
magazine; Fraser's nearer approach to possibility of life was the mud
magazine;...
Boks 7.200 22 An inestimable trilogy of ancient
social pictures are the three Banquets respectively of Plato, Xenophon
and Plutarch. Plutarch's has the least approach to historical
accuracy;...
Clbs 7.226 8 With some men [conversation] is a
debate; at the approach of a dispute they neigh like horses.
Insp 8.289 9 ...our enlarged powers in the presence,
or rather at the approach and at the departure of a friend...these are
the types or conditions of this power [of novelty].
Prch 10.231 22 We come to church properly...for
approach to principles to see how it stands with us...
MMEm 10.400 19 One of [Mary Moody Emerson's] tasks,
it appears, was to watch for the approach of the deputy-sheriff...
MMEm 10.421 8 High, solemn, entrancing noon,
prophetic of the approach of the Presiding Spirit of Autumn.
MMEm 10.427 13 I sometimes fancy I detect in [Mary
Moody Emerson's] writings a certain...polite and courtly homage to the
name and dignity of Jesus...really veiling and betraying her organic
dislike to any interference, any mediation between her and the Author
of her being, assurance of whose direct dealing with her she
incessantly invokes: for example, the parenthesis Saving thy presence,
Priest and Medium of all this approach for a sinful creature!.
PLT 12.14 7 I observe with curiosity [the
Intellect's] risings and settings... that I may learn to...feel its
approach...
PLT 12.35 14 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the
approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born
child to the breast.
PLT 12.35 15 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the
approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born
child to the breast.
PLT 12.35 17 The old Hindoo Gautama says, Like the
approach of the iron to the loadstone is the approach of the new-born
child to the breast. There is somewhat awful in that first approach.
Milt1 12.248 7 There is no name in English literature
between [Milton's] age and ours that rises into any approach to his
own.
approach, v. (24)
Nat 1.29 12 ...the idioms of all languages approach
each other in passages of the greatest eloquence and power.
LE 1.162 6 No more will I dismiss, with haste, the
visions which flash and sparkle across my sky; but...approach them...
SR 2.68 20 That thought by what I can now nearest
approach to say it, is this.
SL 2.150 11 Persons approach us, famous for their
beauty...with very imperfect result.
Fdsp 2.199 19 ...the very flower and aroma of the
flower of each of the beautiful natures disappears as they approach
each other.
Int 2.343 19 Each new mind we approach seems to
require an abdication of all our past and present possessions.
SwM 4.125 23 [To Swedenborg] Such as have deprived
themselves of charity, wander and flee: the societies which they
approach discover their quality and drive them away.
Farm 7.151 1 There has been a nightmare bred in
England of indigestion and spleen among landlords and loom-lords,
namely, the dogma...that men multiply in a geometrical ratio, whilst
corn multiplies only in an arithmetical; and hence that, the more
prosperous we are, the faster we approach these frightful limits...
PI 8.68 19 In proportion as a man's life comes into
union with truth, his thoughts approach to a parallelism with the
currents of natural laws...
Grts 8.316 22 ...natural is really allied to moral
power, and may always be expected to approach it by its own instincts.
Edc1 10.155 19 [The naturalist] sits still; if [the
creatures of nature] approach, he remains passive as the stone he sits
upon.
Koss 11.401 5 ...as the shores of Europe and America
approach every month...when the crisis arrives it will find us all
instructed beforehand in the rights and wrongs of Hungary...
PLT 12.11 1 The wonder of the science of Intellect is
that the substance with which we deal is of that subtle and active
quality that it intoxicates all who approach it.
PLT 12.11 8 Let me have your attention to this
dangerous subject [the laws and powers of the Intellect], which we will
cautiously approach on different sides of this dim and perilous lake...
PLT 12.16 8 To Be is the unsolved, unsolvable wonder.
To Be, in its two connections of inward and outward, the mind and
Nature. The wonder subsists, and age, though of eternity, could not
approach a solution.
CL 12.146 7 It seems to me much that I have brought a
skilful chemist into my ground...for an art he has, out of all kinds of
refuse rubbish to manufacture Virgaliens, Bergamots, and Seckels, in a
manner which no confectioner can approach...
MAng1 12.233 27 ...as...[Michelangelo] sought to
approach the Beautiful by the study of the True, so he failed not to
make the next step of progress, and to seek Beauty in its highest form,
that of Goodness.
MAng1 12.244 23 ...[Michelangelo] was a brother and a
friend to all who acknowledge the beauty that beams in universal
Nature, and who seek by labor and self-denial to approach its source in
perfect goodness.
approached, v. (12)
MN 1.216 6 Your end should be one inapprehensible to
the senses; then will it be a god always approached, never touched;...
Con 1.314 17 ...he who sets his face like a flint
against every novelty, when approached in the confidence of
conversation...has also his gracious and relenting moments...
Comp 2.116 22 ...the royal armies sent against
Napoleon, when he approached cast down their colors and from enemies
became friends...
NR 3.240 10 A new poet has appeared; a new character
approached us; why should we refuse to eat bread until we have found
his regiment and section in our old army-files?
SwM 4.121 25 ...the dictionary of symbols is yet to
be written. But the interpreter whom mankind must still expect, will
find no predecessor who has approached so near to the true problem [as
Swedenborg].
WD 7.163 22 Tantalus, who in old times was seen
vainly trying to quench his thirst with a flowing stream which ebbed
whenever he approached it, has been seen again lately.
Cour 7.269 17 ...out of love of the reality [the
scholar] is an expert judge how far the book has approached it...
Cour 7.274 21 The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at
the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him...
MoL 10.253 10 There is a proverb that Napoleon, when
the Mameluke cavalry approached the French lines, ordered the
grenadiers to the front, and the asses and the savans to fall into the
hollow square.
SlHr 10.446 20 No person was more keenly alive to the
stabs which the ambition and avarice of men inflicted on the
commonwealth [than Samuel Hoar] .Yet when politicians or speculators
approached him, these memories left no scar;...
PLT 12.16 25 Who has found the boundaries of human
intelligence? Who has made a chart of its channel, or approached the
fountain of this wonderful Nile?
approaches, n. (4)
Bty 6.305 21 ...the fact is familiar that...a phrase
of poetry, plants wings at our shoulders; as if the Divinity, in his
approaches, lifts away mountains of obstruction...
Elo2 8.127 19 ...on going up the pulpit-stairs [Dr.
Charles Chauncy] was informed that a little boy had fallen into Frog
Pond on the Common and was drowned, and the doctor was requested to
improve the sad occasion. The doctor was much distressed, and in his
prayer he hesitated, he tried to make soft approaches...
PPr 12.380 9 The book [Carlyle's Past and Present]
makes great approaches to true contemporary history...
approaches, v. (11)
Mrs1 3.153 19 Everything that is called fashion and
courtesy humbles itself before...the heart of love. This is the royal
blood, this the fire, which...will work after its kind and conquer and
expand all that approaches it.
NMW 4.234 12 Sire, every regiment that approaches the
heavy artillery is sacrificed: Sire, what orders?
ET13 5.222 22 ...the same [English] men who have
brought free trade or geology to their present standing, look grave and
lofty and shut down their valve as soon as the conversation approaches
the English Church.
Bty 6.296 13 A beautiful woman is a practical
poet...planting tenderness, hope and eloquence in all whom she
approaches.
Imtl 8.341 19 Montesquieu said, The love of study is
in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in
proportion as this miserable machine which holds them approaches its
ruin.
CPL 11.505 3 Montesquieu...writes: The love of study
is in us almost the only eternal passion. All the others quit us in
proportion as this miserable machine which gives them to us approaches
its ruin.
PLT 12.23 12 Every scholar knows that he applies
himself coldly and slowly at first to his task, but, with the progress
of the work, the mind itself becomes heated, and sees far and wide as
it approaches the end...
Bost 12.185 13 ...if the character of the people [of
Boston] has a larger range and greater versatility...perhaps they may
thank their climate of extremes, which at one season gives them the
splendor of the equator and a touch of Syria, and then runs down to a
cold which approaches the temperature of the celestial spaces.
AgMs 12.362 6 One would think that Mr. D. [Elias
Phinney] and Major S. [Abel Moore] were the pillars of the
Commonwealth. The good Commissioner [Henry Colman] takes off his hat
when he approaches them...
approaching, adj. (3)
Nat 1.54 19 ...the approaching tide/ Will shortly
fill the reasonable shores/ That now lie foul and muddy./
Exp 3.71 17 When I converse with a profound mind...I
am at first apprised of my vicinity to a new and excellent region of
life. By persisting to read or to think, this region gives further sign
of itself...in sudden discoveries of its profound beauty and repose, as
if the clouds that covered it parted at intervals, and showed the
approaching traveller the inland mountains...
MoS 4.174 13 My astonishing San Carlo thought the
lawgivers and saints infected. They found the ark empty; saw, and would
not tell; and tried to choke off their approaching followers, by
saying, Action, action, my dear fellows, is for you!
approaching, v. (3)
LT 1.272 9 Out of this fair Idea in the mind springs
the effort at the Perfect. ... If we would make more strict inquiry
concerning its origin, we find ourselves rapidly approaching the inner
boundaries of thought...
Prd1 2.240 9 Scarcely can we say we see new men, new
women, approaching us.
Dem1 10.16 3 We do not think the young will be
forsaken; but he is fast approaching the age when the sub-miraculous
external protection and leading are withdrawn and he is committed to
his own care.
approbation, n. (9)
Con 1.299 27 Nature does not give the crown of its
approbation, namely, beauty, to any action or emblem or actor but to
one which combines both these elements [Conservatism and Reform];...
Mrs1 3.133 10 There will always be in society certain
persons who are mercuries of its approbation...
NER 3.283 22 ...whether thy work be fine or
coarse...so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it
shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought...
PI 8.64 13 Bring us...poetry like that verse of
Saadi, which the angels testified met the approbation of Allah in
Heaven;...
Aris 10.61 11 Give up, once for all, the hope of
approbation from the people in the street, if you are pursuing great
ends.
Milt1 12.273 18 [Milton] thought he could be famous
only in proportion as he enjoyed the approbation of the good.
appropriate, adj. (7)
Nat 1.61 7 ...facts that end in the statement, cannot
be all that is true of this brave lodging...wherein all [man's]
faculties find appropriate and endless exercise.
LT 1.275 26 Here is great variety and richness of
mysticism, [which]... when it shall be taken up as the garniture of
some profound and all-reconciling thinker, will appear the rich and
appropriate decoration of his robes.
Hist 2.3 18 ...the human spirit goes forth from the
beginning to embody... every emotion which belongs to it, in
appropriate events.
PI 8.44 26 In dreams we are true poets; we create the
persons of the drama; we give them appropriate figures, faces,
costume;...
PI 8.47 9 ...human passion, seizing these
constitutional tunes, aims to fill them with appropriate words...
MAng1 12.233 19 Through [superficial beauty]
[Michelangelo] beheld the eternal spiritual beauty which ever clothes
itself with grand and graceful outlines, as its appropriate form.
appropriate, v. (9)
Comp 2.103 20 Whilst thus the world...refuses to be
disparted, we seek...to appropriate;...
Comp 2.110 22 The exclusive in fashionable life does
not see that he excludes himself from enjoyment, in the attempt to
appropriate it.
Fdsp 2.199 11 We seek our friend...with an adulterate
passion which would appropriate him to ourselves.
PPh 4.55 16 [Plato's] argument and his sentence are
self-poised and spherical. The two poles appear; yes, and become two
hands, to grasp and appropriate their own.
QO 8.193 6 ...it is as difficult to appropriate the
thoughts of others, as it is to invent.
Chr2 10.94 4 The antagonist nature is the
individual...with appetites which take from everybody else what they
appropriate to themselves...
Milt1 12.276 10 Shall we say that in our admiration
and joy in these wonderful poems [of Homer and Shakespeare] we have
even a feeling of regret...that [the men]...were channels through which
streams of thought flowed from a higher source, which they did not
appropriate...
MLit 12.316 24 Of the perception now fast becoming a
conscious fact...that I, as a man, may claim and appropriate whatever
of true or fair or good or strong has anywhere been
exhibited;...literature is far the best expression.
appropriated, v. (3)
Nat 1.25 22 ...thought and emotion are words borrowed
from sensible things, and now appropriated to spiritual nature.
SS 7.7 27 ...each of these potentates [Dante,
Michaelangelo, Columbus] saw well the reason of his exclusion. Solitary
was he? Why, yes; but his society was limited only by the amount of
brain nature appropriated in that age to carry on the government of the
world.
appropriately, adv. (1)
SMC 11.350 23 ...the roots of events [the Concord
Monument] appropriately marks are in the heart of the universe.
appropriates, v. (2)
YA 1.373 21 ...we cannot shed a hair or a paring of a
nail but instantly [Nature] snatches at the shred and appropriates it
to the general stock.
Pow 6.58 16 ...Commander Wilkes appropriates the
results of all the naturalists attached to the Expedition;...
appropriation, n. (6)
Lov1 2.179 20 [Beauty's] nature is like opaline
doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the
most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying
all attempts at appropriation and use.
Cir 2.319 9 ...fever, intemperance, insanity,
stupidity and crime; they are all forms of old age; they are rest,
conservatism, appropriation, inertia;...
DL 7.110 12 How could such a book as Plato's
Dialogues have come down, but for the sacred savings of scholars and
their fantastic appropriation of them?
QO 8.200 18 Goethe frankly said, What would remain to
me if this art of appropriation were derogatory to genius?
HDC 11.41 27 The first record [of Concord] now
remaining is that of...the appropriation of new lands as commons or
pastures to some poor men.
War 11.170 23 The next season...the party this man
votes with have an appropriation to carry through Congress: instantly
he wags his head the other way...
approval, n. (2)
Exp 3.59 24 To fill the hour,--that is happiness; to
fill the hour and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.
SA 8.100 6 [The consideration the rich possess] is
the approval given by the human understanding to the act of creating
value by knowledge and labor.
approve, v. (8)
Int 2.344 20 ...[Aeschylus] has not yet done his
office when he has educated the learned of Europe for a thousand years.
He is now to approve himself a master of delight to me also.
Mrs1 3.123 9 In times of violence, every eminent
person must fall in with many opportunities to approve his stoutness
and worth;...
Clbs 7.241 3 Conversation is the Olympic games
whither every superior gift resorts to assert and approve itself...
Suc 7.282 6 But if thou do thy best,/ Without
remission, without rest,/ And invite the sunbeam,/ And abhor to feign
or seem/ Even to those who thee should love/ And thy behavior
approve;/...
Chr2 10.97 22 It would instantly indispose us to any
person claiming to speak for the Author of Nature, the setting forth
any fact or law which we did not find in our consciousness. We should
say with Heraclitus: Come into this smoky cabin; God is here also:
approve yourself to him.
LS 11.18 9 I appeal, brethren, to your individual
experience. In the moment when you make the least petition to God,
though it be but a silent wish that he may approve you...do you not, in
the very act, necessarily exclude all other beings from your thought?
LS 11.19 27 If I believed [the Lord's Supper] was
enjoined by Jesus on his disciples...and yet on trial it was
disagreeable to my own feelings, I should not adopt it. I should choose
other ways which, as more effectual upon me, he would approve more.
FRep 11.523 8 ...[Americans] take another step, and
say, One vote can do no harm! and vote for something which they do not
approve, because their party or set votes for it.
approved, adj. (1)
ET5 5.96 25 [The Board of Trade of England] caused to
be translated from foreign languages and illustrated by elaborate
drawings, the most approved works of Munich, Berlin and Paris.
approved, v. (7)
NMW 4.226 14 It struck Dumont that he could fit
[Mirabeau's speech] with a peroration, which he wrote in pencil
immediately, and showed it to Lord Elgin, who sat by him. Lord Elgin
approved it...
ET5 5.92 15 [The English] have approved their Saxon
blood, by their sea-going qualities;...
Insp 8.297 1 I value literary biography for the hints
it furnishes from so many scholars...of...what gymnastic, what social
practices their experience suggested and approved.
Thor 10.454 17 Perhaps [Thoreau] fell into his way of
living without forecasting it much, but approved it with later wisdom.
HDC 11.48 25 ...I have set a value upon any symptom
of meanness and private pique which I have met with in these antique
books [Concord Town Records], as proof...that if the results of our
history are approved as wise and good, it was yet a free strife;...
EWI 11.107 6 We cannot say the cause set forth by
this return is allowed or approved of by the laws of this kingdom
[England];...
MAng1 12.225 20 The excellence of the [defense] works
constructed by our artist [Michelangelo] has been approved by Vauban...
approver, n. (1)
Cir 2.307 7 We thirst for approbation, yet cannot
forgive the approver.
approvers, n. (1)
EdAd 11.387 25 Lovers of our country, but not always
approvers of the public counsels, we should certainly be glad to give
good advice in politics.
approves, v. (2)
PLT 12.4 23 Every creation...is on the method and by
the means which our mind approves as soon as it is thoroughly
acquainted with the facts;...
approving, v. (1)
Thor 10.458 7 In 1847, not approving some uses to
which the public expenditure was applied, [Thoreau] refused to pay his
town tax, and was put in jail.
approvingly, adv. (1)
approximate, adj. (5)
Cir 2.314 12 Has the naturalist or chemist learned
his craft...who has not yet discerned the deeper law whereof this is
only a partial or approximate statement...
Cir 2.314 16 ...the goods which belong to you
gravitate to you and need not be pursued with pains and cost? Yet is
that statement approximate also, and not final.
NER 3.282 24 Every time we converse we seek to
translate [Providence] into speech, but whether we hit or whether we
miss, we have the fact. Every discourse is an approximate answer...
MoS 4.157 16 ...there is no practical question on
which any thing more than an approximate solution can be had?
Edc1 10.133 2 ...the event of each moment...the
passing of a beautiful face, the apoplexy of our neighbor, are all
tests to try our theory [of life], the approximate result we call
truth...
approximating, v. (1)
PC 8.222 11 We are told that in posting his books,
after the French had measured on the earth a degree of the meridian,
when [Newton] saw that his theoretic results were approximating that
empirical one, his hand shook...
approximation, n. (2)
Dem1 10.7 6 What keeps those wild tales [of Ovid and
Kalidasa] in circulation for thousands of years? What but the wild fact
to which they suggest some approximation of theory?
SovE 10.213 7 Now science and philosophy recognize
the parallelism, the approximation, the unity of the two [Spirit and
Matter]...
approximations, n. (3)
Imtl 8.336 1 ...what are these delights in the vast
and permanent and strong, but approximations and resemblances of what
is entire and sufficing, creative and self-sustaining life?
appulses, n. (1)
Pt1 3.6 9 ...in our experience, the rays or appulses
have sufficient force to arrive at the senses...
appurtenances, n. (1)
ShP 4.205 6 It appears that from year to year
[Shakespeare] owned a larger share of the Blackfriars' Theatre: its
wardrobe and other appurtenances were his...
April, adj. (1)
April, n. (17)
ET7 5.120 22 ...one cannot think this festival [of
St. George in Montreal] fruitless, if, all over the world, on the 23d
of April, wherever two or three English are found, they meet to
encourage each other in the nationality of veracity.
ET7 5.123 17 [The English] are very liable in their
politics to extraordinary delusions; thus to believe...that the
movement of 10 April, 1848, was urged or assisted by foreigners...
ET11 5.184 1 It was remarked, on the 10th April, 1848
(the day of the Chartist demonstration), that the upper classes [in
England] were for the first time actively interesting themselves in
their own defence...
ET12 5.203 7 I saw the whole [Thomas Lawrence art
collection] collection in April, 1848.
ET15 5.264 11 [The London Times] denounced and
discredited the French Republic of 1848, and checked every sympathy
with it in England, until it had enrolled 200,000 special constables to
watch the Chartists and make them ridiculous on the 10th April.
Suc 7.285 3 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that
infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs
within certain days in April...
LLNE 10.359 19 The West Roxbury Association was
formed in 1841, by a society of members...who bought a farm in West
Roxbury...and took possession of the place in April.
EzRy 10.384 17 In March following [Joseph Emerson]
notes: Had a safe and comfortable journey to York. But April 24th, we
find: Shay overturned, with my wife and I in it, yet neither of us much
hurt. blessed be our gracious Preserver.
EzRy 10.390 9 ...[Ezra Ripley] was...a great
browbeater of the poor old fathers who still survived from the 19th of
April, to the end that they should testify to his history as he had
written it.
HDC 11.63 20 ...the country people came armed into
Boston, on the afternoon (of Thursday, 18th April)...
HDC 11.72 25 A large amount of military stores had
been deposited in this town [Concord], by order of the Provincial
Committee of Safety. It was to destroy those stores that the troops who
were attacked in this town, on the 19th April, 1775, were sent hither
by General Gage.
HDC 11.77 20 [William Emerson], at least, saw clearly
the pregnant consequences of the 19th April [1775].
FSLC 11.182 19 [The crisis over the Fugitive Slave
Law] ended a good deal of nonsense we had been wont to hear and to
repeat, on the 19th of April, the 17th of June, the 4th of July.
SMC 11.374 7 On the first of April, the
[Thirty-second] regiment connected with Sheridan's cavalry...
CL 12.136 8 Chaucer notes of the month of April, Than
longen folk to goon on pilgrymages,/ And palmers for to seken straunge
strondes,/ To ferne halwes, couthe in sondry londes./
CL 12.138 5 [Linnaeus] studied the insects that
infested the timber, and found that they laid their eggs in the logs
within certain days in April...
AgMs 12.358 1 In an afternoon in April...I traversed
an orchard where boys were grafting apple-trees...
apron, n. (1)
Civ 7.22 17 There was once a giantess who had a
daughter, and the child saw a husbandman ploughing in the field. Then
she ran and picked him up... and put him and his plough and his oxen
into her apron...
apt, adj. (23)
MR 1.241 18 ...where there is a fine organization,
apt for poetry and philosophy, that individual finds himself compelled
to wait on his thoughts;...
Int 2.337 27 ...the mystic pencil wherewith we...draw
[in unconscious states]...can design well and group well;...and the
whole canvas which it paints is...apt to touch us with terror...
ET6 5.114 18 English stories, bon-mots and the
recorded table-talk of their wits, are as good as the best of the
French. In America, we are apt scholars...
ET8 5.134 11 ...here [in England] exists the best
stock in the world...men of...strong instincts, yet apt for culture;...
F 6.18 11 No one can read the history of astronomy
without perceiving that Copernicus, Newton...are not...a new kind of
men, but that Thales... Oenipodes...each had the same tense geometrical
brain, apt for the same vigorous computation...
Ctr 6.132 1 ...if a man have a defect, it is apt to
leave its impression on all his performances.
Wsp 6.214 11 For a great nature it is a happiness to
escape a religious training,--religion of character is so apt to be
invaded.
CbW 6.276 21 ...whatever art you select...all are
attainable...on the same terms of selecting that for which you are
apt;...
Elo1 7.75 11 ...we may say of such collectively that
the habit of oratory is apt to disqualify them for eloquence.
PerF 10.86 25 A boy who knows that a bully lives
round the corner which he must pass on his daily way to school, is apt
to take sinister views of streets and of school education.
Schr 10.277 9 I am apt to believe, with the Emperor
Charles V., that as many languages as a man knows, so many times is he
a man.
EzRy 10.393 17 [Ezra Ripley's] conversation was
strictly personal and apt to the party and the occasion.
LS 11.8 17 ...many persons are apt to imagine that
the very striking and personal manner in which the eating and drinking
[at the Last Supper] is described, indicates a striking and formal
purpose to found a festival.
SMC 11.369 13 The Colonel [George Prescott] took
evident pleasure in the fact that he could account for all his men.
There were so many killed, so many wounded,-but no missing. For that
word missing is apt to mean skulking.
PLT 12.12 11 I confess to a little distrust of that
completeness of system which metaphysicians are apt to affect.
Mem 12.95 3 Am I asked whether the thoughts clothe
themselves in words? I answer, Yes, always; but they are apt to be
instantly forgotten.
CInt 12.118 25 ...I note that the British people are
emigrating hither by thousands, which is a very sincere, and apt to be
a very seriously considered expression of opinion.
CInt 12.123 8 ...[the Understanding] is apt to be a
talker, a boaster, a busy-body.
WSL 12.342 26 It is vain to call [the literary
spirit] a luxury, and as saints and reformers are apt to do, decry it
as a species of day-dreaming.
aptitude, n. (7)
Nat 1.56 15 Turgot said, He that has never doubted
the existence of matter, may be assured he has no aptitude for
metaphysical inquiries.
ET4 5.58 23 ...crowbars, peat-knives and hay-forks
are tools valued by [the Norsemen] all the more for their charming
aptitude for assassinations.
QO 8.191 12 ...the worth of the sentences consists in
their radiancy and equal aptitude to all intelligence.
PLT 12.31 12 Each has a certain aptitude for knowing
or doing somewhat which, when it appears, is so adapted and aimed on
that, that it seems a sort of obtuseness to everything else.
PLT 12.31 16 ...[a man's] aptitude, if he would obey
it, would prove a telescope to bring under his clear vision what was
blur to everybody else.
WSL 12.342 14 ...this sweet asylum of an intellectual
life [a library] must appear to have the sanction of Nature, as long as
so many men are born with so decided an aptitude for reading and
writing.
aptly, adv. (3)
Hist 2.33 11 ...if the man...remains fast by the soul
and sees the principle; then the facts fall aptly and supple into their
places;...
Elo2 8.110 8 ...whose mind soever is fully possessed
with a fervent desire to know good things, and with the dearest charity
to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when such a man would
speak, his words...in well-ordered files...fall aptly into their own
places.--Milton.
Milt1 12.262 12 ...[Milton] said...whose mind soever
is fully possessed with a fervent desire to know good things, and with
the dearest charity to infuse the knowledge of them into others, when
such a man would speak, his words...in well-ordered files...fall aptly
into their own places.
aptness, n. (1)
PI 8.11 20 ...the aptness with which a river, a
flower, a bird, fire, day or night, can express [man's] fortunes, is as
if the world were only a disguised man...
Apuleius, n. (2)
Lov1 2.183 5 Somewhat like this have the truly wise
told us of love in all ages. The doctrine is not old, nor is it new. If
Plato, Plutarch and Apuleius taught it, so have Petrarch, Angelo and
Milton.
Plu 10.319 9 What a fruit and fitting monument of
[Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace
or home of...Aratus, Apollonius and Apuleius.
aquatic, adj. (1)
Boks 7.203 7 ...[in the Platonists] the grand and
pleasing figures of gods and daemons and daemoniacal men, of the azonic
and the aquatic gods...sail before [the scholar's] eyes.
aqueduct, n. (2)
Aris 10.40 9 ...if the healer of small-pox, the
contriver...of the aqueduct, of the bridge, of the tunnel;...should
keep their secrets...must not the whole race of mankind serve them as
gods?
II 12.67 1 I know, of course, all the grounds on
which any man affirms the immortality of the Soul. Fed from one spring,
the water-tank is equally full in all the gardens: the difference is in
the distribution by pipes and pumps (difference in the aqueduct)...
aqueducts, n. (4)
SL 2.137 1 Our society is encumbered by ponderous
machinery, which resembles the endless aqueducts which the Romans built
over hill and dale...
Cir 2.302 22 See the investment of capital in
aqueducts, made useless by hydraulics;...
ET5 5.85 5 [The English] build roads, aqueducts;...
Art2 7.40 27 It was said, in allusion to the great
structures of the ancient Romans, the aqueducts and bridges, that their
Art was a Nature working to municiple ends.
Aquinas, St. Thomas, n. (1)
QO 8.181 11 Albert...St. Buonaventura...Thomas
Aquinas...Dante absorbed, and he survives for us.
Ara Coeli [Celi], Rome, I (1)
Arab, adj. (2)
Bhr 6.176 26 Take a date-tree [said the emir
Abdel-Kader], leave it without water, without culture, and it will
always produce dates. Nobility is the date-tree and the Arab populace
is a bush of thorns.
Arab, n. (8)
F 6.5 13 The Turk, the Arab, the Persian, accepts the
foreordained fate...
Cour 7.264 1 The hunter is not alarmed by bears,
catamounts or wolves... nor an Arab by the simoon...
PPo 8.240 6 Elsewhere [Layard] adds, Poetry and
flowers are the wine and spirits of the Arab;...
Prch 10.223 19 I find myself always struck and
stimulated by a good anecdote, any trait...of faithful service. I do
not find that the age or country makes the least difference; no, nor
the language the actors spoke, nor the religion which they professed,
whether Arab in the desert, or Frenchman in the Academy.
CPL 11.504 13 Even the wild and warlike Arab Mahomet
said, Men are either learned or learning: the rest are blockheads.
CL 12.145 27 [The pear]...could live, like an Arab,
on air and water.
CW 12.174 8 ...[a man in his wood-lot] remembers that
Allah in his allotment of life does not count the time which the Arab
spends in the chase.
Arabia, n. (5)
Civ 7.26 9 ...some of our grandest examples of men
and of races come from the equatorial regions,--as the genius of Egypt,
of India and of Arabia.
QO 8.180 15 ...if we find in India or Arabia a book
out of our horizon of thought and tradition, we are soon taught by new
researches in its native country to discover its foregoers...
Insp 8.275 15 The legends of Arabia, Persia and India
are of the same complexion as the Christian.
MoL 10.244 10 On the south and east shores of the
Mediterranean Mahomet impressed his fierce genius how deeply into the
manners, language and poetry of Arabia and Persia!
Arabian, adj. (13)
AmS 1.91 21 The Arabian proverb says, A fig tree,
looking on a fig tree, becometh fruitful.
MR 1.252 3 ...there will dawn ere long...on our modes
of living, a nobler morning than that Arabian faith...
MR 1.255 13 An Arabian poet describes his hero by
saying, Sunshine was he/ In the winter day;/ And in the midsummer/
Coolness and shade./
LT 1.282 15 We do not find the same trait [of
perplexity] in the Arabian, in the Hebrew...periods;...
Hsm1 2.253 14 Ibn Haukal, the Arabian geographer,
describes a heroic extreme in the hospitality of Sogd, in Bukharia.
OS 2.278 26 ...[men] resemble those Arabian sheiks
who dwell in mean houses and affect an external poverty...
Elo1 7.99 23 [Eloquence's] great masters...resembling
the Arabian warrior of fame, who wore seventeen weapons in his belt,
and in personal combat used them all occasionally.--yet subordinated
all means;...
WD 7.160 15 What of the grand tools with which we
engineer, like kobolds and enchanters...piercing the Arabian desert?
Insp 8.280 27 ...another Arabian proverb has its
coarse truth: When the belly is full, it says to the head, Sing,
fellow!
PerF 10.82 14 The story of Orpheus, of Arion, of the
Arabian minstrel, are not fables...
Pray 12.351 21 Wacic the Caliph...ended his life, the
Arabian historians tell us, with these words: O thou whose kingdom
never passes away, pity one whose dignity is so transient.
Arabian Nights' Entertainme (1)
Dem1 10.25 14 [Animal Magnetism] seemed to open again
that door which was open to the imagination of childhood-of magicians
and fairies and lamps of Aladdin...
Arabian Nights' Entertainme (3)
ShP 4.201 2 Vedas, Aesop's Fables, Pilpay, Arabian
Nights, Cid, Iliad, Robin Hood, Scottish Minstrelsy, are not the work
of single men.
Elo1 7.70 18 The whole world knows pretty well the
style of these [Eastern] improvisators, and how fascinating they are,
in our translations of the Arabian Nights.
DL 7.106 20 The Arabian Nights' Entertainments...what
mines of thought and emotion...are in this encyclopaedia of young
thinking!
Arabian Night!s Entertainme (1)
PC 8.214 2 ...each European nation...had its romantic
era, and the productions of that era in each rose to about the same
height. Take for an example in literature the Romance of Arthur, in
Britain...the Norse Sagas, in Scandinavia; and, I may add, the Arabian
Nights, on the African coast.
Arabian Nights, n. (1)
CPL 11.507 20 The imagination...if it has not had the
Arabian Nights...has drawn equal delight and terror from haunts and
passages which you will hear of with envy.
Arabians, n. (4)
Con 1.317 6 ...the vigor of...Mahomet, Ali and Omar
the Arabians... sufficed to build what you call society on the spot and
in the instant when the sound mind in a sound body appeared.
SwM 4.95 20 The Arabians say, that Abul Khain, the
mystic, and Abu Ali Seena, the philosopher, conferred together;...
SA 8.104 5 If [a people is] occupied in its own
affairs and thoughts and men, with a heat which excludes almost the
notice of any other people,--as... the Persians, the Romans, the
Arabians...at their best times have been,--they are sublime;...
Arabian's, n. (1)
MoL 10.253 8 See armies, institutions, literatures,
appearing in the train of some wild Arabian's dream.
arable, adj. (3)
LT 1.289 24 The granite is curiously
concealed...under well-manured, arable fields...
ET3 5.34 17 The long habitation of a powerful and
ingenious race has turned every rood of land [in England] to its best
use, has found all the capabilities, the arable soil...
Res 8.141 22 When our population, swarming west,
reached the boundary of arable land...on the face of the sterile waste
beyond, the land was suddenly in parts found covered with gold and
silver...
Arabs, n. (8)
MR 1.251 5 Every great and commanding moment in the
annals of the world is the triumph of some enthusiasm. The victories of
the Arabs after Mahomet...is an example.
PPh 4.76 9 ...[Plato's] writings have not...the vital
authority which...the sermons of unlettered Arabs and Jews possess.
ET4 5.70 9 [The English] think...with the Arabs, that
the days spent in the chase are not counted in the length of life.
ET18 5.303 15 In the island [England]...there is...no
abandonment or ecstasy of will or intellect, like that of the Arabs in
the time of Mahomet...
ACri 12.295 13 The Chinese have got on so long with
their solitary Confucius and Mencius; the Arabs with their Mahomet;...
Arachnean, adj. (1)
MMEm 10.424 4 In Eternity, no deceitful promises, no
fantastic illusions, no riddles concealed by thy [Time's] shrouds, none
of thy Arachnean webs, which decoy and destroy.
Arago, Dominique Francois, (2)
PC 8.220 9 In politics, mark the importance of
minorities of one, as of... Arago.
CInt 12.124 15 ...there is a certain shyness of
genius...in colleges, which is as old as the rejection...of Bentley by
the pedants of his time, and only the other day, of Arago;...
Aratus, n. (1)
Plu 10.319 8 What a fruit and fitting monument of
[Alexander's] best days was his city Alexandria, to be the birthplace
or home of...Aratus, Apollonius and Apuleius.
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